Blog | Environmental Justice at Western

American Environmentalism: Washing Away the White Men

This quarter, graduate students enrolled in ENVS 597: Power, Privilege, and the Environment are writing short responses emerging from readings and/or discussions in class. American Environmentalism: Washing Away the White Men By: Andy Basabe Critically analyzing America’s environmental history from the 1800’s to today can be challenging. Critical analysis challenges oneself to deconstruct environmental…

Accessibility: Shifting Power into the Hands of the Oppressed

This quarter, graduate students enrolled in ENVS 597: Power, Privilege, and the Environment are writing short responses emerging from readings and/or discussions in class. Accessibility: Shifting Power into the Hands of the Oppressed by Ali Burdick It’s no secret that the United States has relied on nonrenewable energy sources and toxic waste treatments…

Deletion, Disappearance, Disregard: The “Veiling” of White Supremacy that Works to Excuse Naive Privilege

This quarter, graduate students enrolled in ENVS 597: Power, Privilege, and the Environment are writing short responses emerging from readings and/or discussions in class. Deletion, Disappearance, Disregard: The “Veiling” of White Supremacy that Works to Excuse Naive Privilege by Ali Burdick One of the biggest challenges I have come to face as…

Liberté, égalité, fraternité: Differences between the idea and the reality

Each quarter, a group of students, faculty, and staff at WWU convene an environmental justice reading group to read and discuss recent texts. This quarter (Spring 2019) the group is reading Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy. The following entry reflects the group’s discussion last week. Liberté, égalité,…

Outdoor (spaces), (places), and (faces)

Outdoor (spaces) (places) and (faces) By: Jessica Ibes April 8th, 2019 Environmental (in) justice, where does it appear? What form does it take? On December 6th in Fall Quarter 2018, Dr. Carolyn Finney helped answer that question. Speaking to over 400 people, Dr. Finney told the story about Ten Thousand Recollections: Black Faces, White…

Historical Privilege: The Narrative

Each quarter, a group of students, faculty, and staff at WWU convene an environmental justice reading group to read and discuss recent texts. This quarter (Winter 2019) the group is reading excerpts from Sharing the earth: An international environmental justice reader (Ammons and Modhumita, eds) and Between the Heart and the Land: Entre el corazón y la tierra…

American Environmentalism: Washing Away the White Men

Accessibility: Shifting Power into the Hands of the Oppressed

Deletion, Disappearance, Disregard: The “Veiling” of White Supremacy that Works to Excuse Naive Privilege

Liberté, égalité, fraternité: Differences between the idea and the reality

Outdoor (spaces), (places), and (faces)

Historical Privilege: The Narrative

Feeling with Color

A Lifetime with Consumers

Why TA for Environmental Justice?

Storytelling