Global Environmental Justice

1 credits · Divinity School

Global Environmental Justice examines environmental justice as a transnational movement shaped by race, religion, colonialism, capitalism, and grassroots struggle, with particular attention to environmental racism and its embodied, infrastructural, and global dimensions. Drawing on sites across the Global South, the Black Atlantic, and the U.S. South, the course explores how Christian institutions, theological traditions, and religious communities have both resisted and reproduced environmental harm. Students will analyze environmental justice not only as a political or legal framework, but as a moral, theological, and spiritual description, lament, and response to dispossession, ecological violence, and uneven development.