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Tanya Matthan: BRT and envt justice

tanyamatthan

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Reimagining ‘justice’ in environmental justice: Radical ecologies, decolonial thought, and the Black Radical Tradition

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What interesting concepts or analytical frames does this text put forward? How might you repurpose or reformulate them to guide your analysis of this Field Campus as a site of the Quotidian Anthropocene?

The authors productively place three bodies of theory in conversation, abolitionist theories, urban political ecology, and decolonial theory, to rewrite the intellectual trajectories of EJ as extending the legacy of the Black Radical Tradition. What are our intellectual and political genealogies as students and researchers of the quotidian anthropocene? What genealogies are we pushing against? Drawing from their examples of spaces and historical moments of interracial solidarity, what kinds of coalitions do we see ourselves partnering with and contributing to as (largely?) newcomers to the activism in Austin?

Energy and Race

kgupta

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Reimagining ‘justice’ in environmental justice: Radical ecologies, decolonial thought, and the Black Radical Tradition

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What scales, systems, and/or objects of study does this text point to as important for understanding this Field Campus as a site of the Quotidian Anthropocene?

What is the energy sector's relationship to racial capitalism? How is its current configuration shaped by legacies of settler colonialism, state bureaucracy, and corporate investment?