Environmental Justice Past, Present, and Futurism · Title: Environmental Justice Past, Present,...

THIS TALK BRINGS TOGETHER HISTORICAL ANDCURRENT UNDERSTANDINGS OF ENVIRONMENTAL

JUSTICE WHILE INCORPORATING SPECULATIVEFICTION/SCIENCE FICTION TO EXPLORE AND

(RE)IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES FORENVIRONMENTALLY AND SOCIALLY JUST FUTURES.

THE CONCEPTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (EJ)FUTURISM CAN BE DEFINED AS THE NECESSARY PIVOT

FROM THE FIGHT AGAINST AN ENVIRONMENTALDYSTOPIA TO AN INTENTIONAL MOVE TOWARDS

CREATING A PRACTICAL ENVIRONMENTAL UTOPIA. EJFUTURISM IS UNDERPINNED BY THE ACADEMIC

FRAMEWORKS OF DECOLONIZATION, CRITICAL RACETHEORY, AND FEMINIST THEORY, AND THUS IT IS ALSO

GROUNDED IN UNDERSTANDINGS OF SOVEREIGNTYAND SELF DETERMINATION.

E N V I R O N M E N T A L J U S T I C E

P A S T , P R E S E N T , & F U T U R I S M

C . N . E . C O R B I N

U C B E R K E L E Y P H D C A N D I D A T E &

C H A I R , C I T Y O F O A K L A N D P A R K S A N D

R E C R E A T I O N A D V I S O R Y C O M M I S S I O N

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