ABLD 2AE3
Introduction to Afro-Environmentalism
Spring/Summer 2025 · C01
Topics
- Climate vs Environment conceptualization
- Afro-Environmentalism (From Black Ecological Prism)
- Conceptualization
- Vulnerability intersectionality
- Vulnerability hierarchy
- Realist theory
- Liberalist theory
- Rawlsian egalitarianism, or justice as fairness.
- Dworkinian egalitarianism, or equality of resources.
- Steiner-Vallentyne libertarianism, or common ownership.
- Nozickian libertarianism, or entitlements
- Conceptualization (Race, Racism, & Cycles)
- Definition and examples of environmental racism
- Vertical and horizontal inequalities in environmental impacts
- Impact on Black communities
- Policies and practices contributing to environmental racism
- Understanding racial capitalism
- Economic exploitation and environmental degradation
- Case studies: Industrial pollution in Black neighborhoods
- Intersectionality theory and its application
- Gender, class, and environmental justice
- Case studies: Intersectional approaches to activism
- Impact of climate change on Black populations
- Adaptation and resilience strategies
- Role of Black communities in climate activism
- Indigenous knowledge systems and their role in climate/environmental adaptation
Readings
- Rethinking environmental racism: White privilege and urban development in Southern California.Routledge.
- Problematizing vulnerability: Unpacking gender, intersectionality, and the normative disaster paradigm. In Creating Katrina, rebuilding resilience (pp. 215-230).Butterworth-Heinemann.
- Vulnerability and vulnerable groups from an intersectionality perspectiveInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction,
- Between flood and drought: Environmental racism, settler waterscapes, and Indigenous water justice in South America’s Chaco.Annals of the American Association of Geographers
- Intersectionality and sustainable development.Gender equality, encyclopedia of the UN sustainable development goals
- Intersectionality as critical social theory.Duke University Press
- Intersectionality.John Wiley & Sons
- Flint, environmental racism, and racial capitalism.Capitalism Nature Socialism,
- The history of Black studiesPluto Press
- Climate Change and Open Grazing Impact on Agricultural Production in Benue State, Nigeria.African Journal of Public Administration and Environmental Studies (AJOPAES).
- A Systematic Review of Climate Change, Water Security, and Conflict Potentials in Kwazulu-Natal Province, South Africa.African Renaissance.
- A history of environmental futurity: Special issue introduction.Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities
- A decolonial critique of diaspora identity theories and the notion of superdiversity.Diaspora Studies
- Decolonizing Diaspora: Whose Traditonal Land are We OnDecolonizing philosophies of education
- THE DISPOSITION OF NATURE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS AND WORLD LITERATUREFordham University Press
- There’s Something In The Water Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black CommunitiesFernwood publishing
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- The outline explicitly states that no textbook is required.