This set of panels extends from and will contribute to the Environmental Injustice Global Record project, designed to connect geographically distributed people working on similar problems, to connect research to teaching, and to build transnational webs of support with community partners. Through side-by-side development of analyses and digital archives focused on environmental injustice in different settings, collaborating researchers are striving to advance both the theory and practice of environmental governance. Presentations on these panels will both share new work and comment on the broader projects' shared analytic framework, digital infrastructure and overall design.
Wen-Ling Tu, College of Innovation, NCCU; Kim Fortun; Tim Schütz
Papers on this open panel will focus on urban spaces, exploring diverse questions: What data is available to characterize environmental injustice in different urban spaces, for example, where are the data gaps and what data advocacy has there been? How are city governments acting in concert with governments at other scales?
Nadine Tanio, University of California, Irvine; Prerna Srigyan, UCI; Margaret Tebbe, UCI; Kim Fortun, UCI; Tim Schütz, UCI; Wonyong Park, University of Southampton
Papers on this open panel will focus on educational spaces, exploring diverse questions: What pedagogical approaches and educational programs (informal and formal, from K-12 through university and adult education) have been developed to address environmental injustice in different settings? How does indigenous, postcolonial and feminist scholarship inform, contribute and challenge more hegemonic pedagogical approaches? How do educators identify and teach complex and overlapping forms of injustice, which combine to produce environmental injustice? How are educational programs challenging epistemic injustice?
Ina Kim, University of California - Irvine; Kim Fortun, Univercity of California, Irvine; Tim Schütz; Misria Shaik Ali
Papers on this open panel will focus on irradiated spaces, exploring diverse questions: How, for example, do radiation hazards combine with other environmental hazards in different places, and how are combined hazards recognized and governed? What data practices and ideologies have emerged as people continue to live in irradiated spaces? What are the continuing and new challenges of radiation governance going forward?
Philipp Baum, ZIRS Halle; Kim Fortun, UC Irvine School of Social Sciences; Tim Schütz, UC Irvine School of Social Sciences; Margaret Tebbe, UC Irvine School of Social Sciences
Papers on this open panel will focus on rural spaces, exploring diverse questions: What, for example, are the special challenges in work to characterize environmental injustice in rural spaces? How is environmental injustice in rural spaces governed, and what are governance gaps? How do rural landscapes and labor histories condition contemporary environmental governance?
