Environmental inequalities and environmental racism

Recommended reading:

Benezra, Amber. 2020. Race in the Microbiome. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 45(5): 877-902. 

Ferdinand, Malcom. 2022. Decolonial ecology. Thinking from the Caribbean world. Medford: Polity Press. [Prologue: “A colonial and environmental double fracture”, p. 1-21. 

Karera, Axelle. 2019. Blackness and the Pitfalls of Anthropocene Ethics. Critical Philosophy of Race 7(1): 32-56.

Further readings will be indicated during the lecture

Additional activity:

Reflect on the impacts of climate change on your personal experience, and search for a headline related to its impact on your local area. If you cannot find such an article, have you been directly affected?  Send a screenshot/link of your article headline (or even social media post etc) or an image of this impact to Kelly (ksambucci5@rvc.ac.uk) who will collate these to share at our next meeting. 

Step for the final works:

Collection and systematisation of the materials for the elaboration of the final works (individually or collectively according with the choice if to do it individually or collectively).