Tue, February 9, 2021 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM ALLARD HALL (FACULTY OF LAW). FREE. Join us for a public talk by Dr. Ingrid Waldron on environmental racism and injustice in Canada.
Dr. Waldron will examine the social justice dimensions of race, place, and space in the Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, and unpack how hierarchies and intersections of race, culture, gender, income, class, and other social identities are spatialized in the places and spaces where we live, work, and play.
Dr. Walrdon will also highlight the larger socio-spatial processes that create disproportionate exposure and vulnerability to the harmful social, economic, and health impacts of inequality in Indigenous and Black communities, while maintaining a critical focus on race as an important analytical entry point for understanding spatial violence in urban and rural spaces where racialized people are harmed by unemployment, income insecurity, poverty, food insecurity, gentrification, police brutality, and proximity to polluting industries. Dr. Waldron's talk will challenge the traditional notions of “the environment” that are centered on harmonizing cities and nature.
Commentary will be made by Professor Dayna Scott, York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.