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Epistemic Justice through Community-Engaged Research: Using Ethnography to Build Environmental Data Literacy (Katie Cox)

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

Measuring the Nation's Social and Economic Well-Being

This visualization from the US Census Bureau helps explains how the concept of "median income" is used in governance and provides resources for teaching it in various contexts.
FOR ECOGOVLAB/CCEJP CURRICULUM: This essay supports 11th Grade Lesson 2 (Hazards).Read more

EiJ Infographic: Data Divergence

Types of data divergence; read more about data divergence; teach it using these cases.Read more

Definition: Poverty Line

Poverty lines are measures of poverty determined by governments or organizations denoting that anyone who makes under that amount is in poverty. Poverty is defined differently in different areas...Read more

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