In October 2019, Taiwanese petrochemical company Formosa Plastics agreed to pay a record settlement of $50 million for their release of plastic pellets into Lavaca Bay and Cox Creek in Texas. The settlement was achieved by a group of activists that made extensive use of “citizen science...Read more
U.S. Conservation movements have excluded histories, perspectives, and interests of marginalized communities, instead centering white, Euroamerican notions of nature, wilderness, and environment. While contemporary conservation communities now express desires for inclusion and equity,...Read more
Environmental civic data are data that help turn entangled economic, environmental and public health issues into matters of public concern. Activists encounter data gaps but also collect huge amounts of data over years of work. Both point to a need for civic data ...Read more
Environmental justice (EJ) advocacy relies heavily on environmental science, but environmental data is often inaccessible or illegible to community residents and activists engaged in EJ work. Anthropologists have documented the role of such epistemic injustice in the perpetuation of...Read more
The Fridays for Future environmental movement in Mexico has undergone a significant transformation process through the material limitations imposed by the pandemic. The movement went from a performance of reclaiming public spaces and flowing organically between online and offline...Read more
How do we teach students about the complex terrain of environmental problems today? In our Environmental Injustices (EiJ) course students collaboratively produce three case studies on fast, slow, and combo disasters to research how environmental hazards compound with structural racism,...Read more
Though Austin, Texas has an impressive history of pairing city growth and development with a strong commitment to a renewable energy transition, this “green-growth” success story is also deeply entangled with the continued displacement and disparagement of the city’s black and brown...Read more
Teaching of anthropology produces a grammar of labour within graduate school: coursework/fieldwork, fieldworker/interlocutor, assisting/researching, advisor/advisee, dissertation/monograph. What kind of collaborative commitments are thought and practiced within this grammar, and to what...Read more
How can writing facilitate student understandings of and action around environmental in/justice? Joining conversations on radical pedagogies, this paper reflects on modes of teaching environmental politics through the written form. Drawing on the experience of teaching a seminar on water...Read more
In this presentation we share findings from our ongoing community participatory research project examining pK-12 Covid-19 governance and the layered constructions of student “well-being” at two schools located in the San Gabriel Valley. While the pandemic immediately forced educators into...Read more
In the highlands of Michoacán, Mexico, the residents of the village of Urequío have built their own water infrastructure, drawing on groundwater sources for access to running water. Residents maintain infrastructure and manage contamination risks in the absence of government support and...Read more
