GR9810: Race, Climate Change, and Environments | H. Assali

Earth and Environmental Sciences
Graduate Seminar
Tu Th 11:40AM-12:55PM

It has been well-documented by now that those facing the heaviest impacts of accelerating climate change and environmental catastrophes have largely been communities of color and / or working class. Many of these communities are also survivors of colonialism’s deeper ongoing legacies of dispossession as well as of capitalist extraction projects. Yet these same communities have long had much to teach on how to be in better relations with our planet and each other – in part through a forced “resilience” and in large part through ancestral knowledge of the land. The purpose of this seminar is to train students to think critically about their research, to broaden the scope of what counts as expertise, and to ethically engage with effected communities when it comes to the production of knowledge and doing science.

The semester will include an in-depth dive into this seminar’s ongoing collaborative community project with The Black School, a New Orleans based community organization facing lead contamination on their land within the context of a long legacy of environmental racism.

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