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SUMMARY:Teaching Political Ecology and Environmental Justice with and agai
 nst the canon - Alex Loftus (King’s College London)
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CONTACT:Tom Fry
DESCRIPTION:Discovering Political Ecology (Cederlöf and Loftus 2024) is a
  co-authored textbook that seeks to narrate the origins of political ecolo
 gy with and against what might be referred to as the Anglo-American canon.
  This project is not without risks given the pedagogical appeal of a simpl
 e narrative. After introducing the book and its broader approach\, I want 
 to consider its broader aims and question how we might teach political eco
 logy and environmental justice with and against their origin stories. For 
 political ecology\, that origin story is one of a paradigm shift in which 
 cultural ecologists overcame the limits of “the site” to develop an an
 alysis focused on a nested hierarchy of scales. For environmental justice\
 , the story is one that takes us from struggles over dumping in dixie to L
 ove Canal and the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership 
 Summit in 1991. The first narrative is rooted in a predominantly Anglo-Ame
 rican body of engaged scholarship\, the second in the informed praxis of N
 orth American social and environmental movements. In this seminar\, I want
  to develop a conversation around how we might teach political ecology and
  EJ in ways that challenge Anglocentrism and acknowledge far more diverse 
 origins to this body of scholarship and informed environmental praxis.
LOCATION:Department of Geography\, Small Lecture Theatre
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