GOVT3995 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Decolonization

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government and International Relations
• Course: GOVT3995
• Professor: Professor David Schlosberg

Document Summary

From conceptions of justice in practice to conceptions of ej that make change. Critical environmental justice looks at larger structures. Capital, race, gender, institutional oppressions related to environment. Addresses tensions and limitations in ej studies. Inequality and power as entrenched (rather than a symptom) The broad expendability of human and nonhuman populations. The centrality of the production of social difference the devaluation of non-white bodies in the economic system including polluted systems the state is one of racial capitalism. Failures of standard state appeals law, regulation, etc. Talk by dr sherilyn macgregor at ej2017 conference https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=1hjiszp2qt8 start at 4:50. Important questions at the end about deconstructing gender, including masculinity. History in environmental theory of ecological feminisms and critiques of gendering terms like nature and culture. Julie sze on long history of gender in environmental justice organizing and misogyny faced by women leaders of movement. Decolonising environmental justice and indigenous environmental justice.