Description
Explain how environmental injustice is created through each of these systems: capitalism, racism, colonialism.
Ground your response in examples from readings/articles provided for each system.
Demonstrate clear understanding and critical engagement with theories.
Emphasize and discuss and clearly cite author's argument supporting each framework of injustice.
How and why these systems lead to inequalities and provide examples.
Compare and contrast how authors consider inequalities across race, class, gender and citizenship.
How they explain the role of different social systems in producing environmental injustices. Which approaches do you find most compelling and why?
Readings/Articles
- Capitalism (money and markets)
- Racism (Racial formation, environmental racism, and the emergence of Silicon Valley)
- Colonialism (The Dakota Access Pipeline, Environmental Injustice, and U.S. Colonialism)