AIS 130 - Environmental Justice, Racism, and Settler Colonialism

Units: 3

Explores the different articulations of environmental justice (EJ) for American Indian people compared to EJ for other communities. Situating settler colonialism as the origin of environmental injustice, genocide and land dispossession as its constituent components are viewed as an ongoing process and structure that keeps American Indian and Alaska Native people locked into struggles against extractive industries and a racist legal system as mechanisms of the capitalist settler state. Highlights Indigenous resistance and resiliency.
Satisfies GE area: F