Speaker
David Pellow, Department Chair, Professor, and Dehlsen Chair, Environmental Studies Program and Director, Global Environmental Justice Project
Abstract
This presentation features a consideration of environmental and climate justice struggles in the U.S. and globally, with a particular focus on prisons, jails, and other carceral spaces. Scholars studying environmental and climate-related risks facing low-income, Indigenous, and people of color populations have only just begun to pay attention to the relevance of carceral spaces, so this talk will offer both breadth and depth of documentation of these threats. Examples of leadership and advocacy by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated persons will also be examined, revealing new fronts in the evolving grassroots movements for environmental and climate justice.
Biography
David N. Pellow is the Dehlsen Chair and Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he teaches courses on social change movements, environmental justice, human-animal conflicts, sustainability, and social inequality. His teaching and research focus on ecological justice issues in the U.S. and globally. His books include: What is Critical Environmental Justice?; Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement; The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden (with Lisa Sun-Hee Park); Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice; The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy (with Lisa Sun-Hee Park); and Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. He has served on the Boards of Directors for the Community Environmental Council, the Global Action Research Center, Greenpeace USA, International Rivers, and the Fund for Santa Barbara.
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