ESPM 50AC Lecture 5: ESPM 50 - Lecture 5

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 50AC
• Professor: Spreyer Kurt

Document Summary

Lecture 5 hurricane katrina: race, class and marginalization - outline. Today: take stock of what we"ve covered, critical race theory: winant and omi, the significance of race and other categories of identity in the context of katrina, structural and ideological racism. Review - new orleans as a racially segregated landscape of differentiated risk. There is a great deal of risk with an illusion of safety. : it is impossible to separate social and environmental issues. Kelman: in n. o. , because it is a network of human and non-human intermingled, straddling the nature/culture divide. : race affects construction and water conservation. Infrastructure makes segregation possible: levees segregate the landscape with different risks based on location, deed covenence- cant rent to non whites. 1: cant manage without access, who in a just society with the environment gets goods and services distributed in a humane way with everyone living a high quality.