Environmental Justice: The Making of a Modern Movement

This class puts the rise of the environmental justice movement in historical context. Students will be introduced to EJ through its foundational texts. Subsequent modules will then look at: how EJ critiqued the earlier environmentalism movement, longer scale historical processes of imperialism, capitalism, and racial formation at the roots of inequitable environmental health, and real-world case studies that show how these historical processes have come together and how the movement has matured since the 1980s. By the end of the course students will understand how EJ work has evolved and become a topic of global concern.