CGS 110 Intersectional Struggles for Environmental Justice

ANNOUNCEMENTS
•060523: The truth about ‘local’ food in US supermarkets: ‘It’s a marketing gimmick’
• 032823: AMLO Blames Migrants Following Tragedy Resulting From Their Inhumane Detention at the Mexico-US Border
• 031823: I am a little behind in getting you your final project comments - coming soon, and don't stress!
• 031823: Belén Fernández writes about rape as a weapon of war against asylum seekers
• 031323: Biden approves controversial Willow oil drilling project in Alaska
• 031023: The Women of Standing Rock (Documentary)
• 030923: Videos of police brutality can perpetuate Black trauma
• 030923: New Utah oil railroad by Colorado River raises health and climate fears
• 030623: Wednesday is International Women's Day. UN Secretary General António Guterres says gender equality will take 300 years
• 030623: Founder of the Independent Living Movement, Disability Rights Activist and leader of the longest sit-in u.s. history Judith Heumann died on saturday
• 030223: Week Nine: Tuesday we will discuss Ritchie's chapters on Police Sexual Violence and Week Nine Reading and on Thursday we will review the topics we covered in CGS 110 and give your Final Project Presentation Groups an opportunity to work on your presentations.
• 022423: On Tuesday, Feb 28 we will complete the Mining Activity and discuss Week Seven Reading. On Thursday, March 2 we will discuss Week Eight Reading.
• 2022423: Week Eight Reading Assignment Template is now available.
• 022323: Next Tuesday, Feb 28 we will finish Week Six's focus on mining organizing and discuss the Week Seven Reading. On Thursday March 2, we will talk about Week Eight's reading on environmental anti-Blackness/racism.
• 022123: Because of rainy weather forecast on Thursday, the Thursday morning in-person office hours is cancelled. I am adding a 6-7pm online office hours for Thursday. Additionally, if you cannot attend office hours and want to talk, please e-mail bt with your availabil9ty so we can set up a meeting.
• 022023: Today is a university holiday, so there will be no office hours on Monday Feb 20 7-8pm. Contact bt if you want to arrange a meeting.
• 021323: We will be picking Final Project Groups and introducing the Final Project Assignment on Thursday Feb 16 - please be certain to attend if possible.
• 021223: Problem with the Week 6 Reading Assignment Template is now fixed. Thanks Marlene!
• 021123: You can now watch and comment on the first batch of Activist Video Presentations - at the right, click on Video Presentations, and then click on the one you want to watch, and then click on the .mov or .mp4 filename to stream or download the video. Contact bt if you are having any problems viewing a video. You can comment directly on the videos by filling in the Subject and Comment boxes below the file. You can enlarge the comment box by grabbing the triangle in the lower right hand corner of the box.
• 020923: You should now be able to see your video presentation post listed in the right column once you upload it. if you have any questions or encounter any problems uploading your video, don't hesitate to contact bt. have a restful weekend, if that is possible!
• 020723: You can now upload your video presentation using the link Upload Video Presentation in the Upload Stuff Section on the right. Contact bt if you encounter any difficulties.
• 020723: Environmental justice targets needed to cut global inequality, say researchers
• 020223: Week Five Reading Template Due Thurs Feb 9 but if you want quicker feedback on your essay topic, please e-mail bt the answer to question 1. List the environmental injustice and community struggle you have chosen for your essay topic (see the essay instruction sheet on the Slides and Handouts page). Provide two citations you are considering using in your essay and at least two of the pillars/key elements/tenets you plan to use in your analysis.
• 013023: Students for Economic Justice Six Week Paid Summer Internship at the Center for Policy Initiatives in Kumeyaay Territory. Info and Application here (March 5 due date).
• 013023: Vijay Kolinjivadi: We are ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction Apocalypse investors are pushing fake climate solutions on us that are making climate change worse
• 012723: When reading Ferguson, be certain to download and use thereading/ terminology guide - link located underneath week four reading. Also, when reviewing Federici for Tuesday's discussion, consult the reading/terminology guide (link located underneath week three reading) for that text as well.
• 012723: There was a prob with the link for the week four reading guide, but it is not fixed!
• 012723: The instructions for the video presentation assignment is now available on the Slides and Handouts page and here with updated due dates. Here are the dates:
-- E-mail bt your top 3 choices (see page 2 of instruction sheet for a list) no later than Monday, January 30
-- Assignments of Activist/Community/Organization will be posted at the bottom of Assigned Reading page on Tuesday, January 31
-- Upload video no later than Friday February 10 (Week 5)
-- Watch and make comments/ask questions on 5 videos no later than Wednesday February 15 (Week 6)
• 012123: ‘Assassinated in cold blood’: activist killed protesting Georgia’s ‘Cop City’
• 012023: “The Quest to Defuse Guyana’s Carbon Bomb”: Meet the Environmental Lawyer Taking On ExxonMobil How do the pillars of Critical Environmental Justice apply to this story?
• 012023: Check out this interview with Afro-Columbian Vice President of Columbia Francia Márquez Mina
• 011923: I forgot to post the reading guide for Silvia Federici's chapter on Marxist Feminism, but your can now find it on the Assigned Reading page.
• 011723: If you have not uploaded your reading assignment template for week two, please do so asap. contact bt with questions!
• 011123 If you have not received an account e-mail from bt, please send an e-mal to bwerner@ucsd.edu ASAP so you can access the course materials, including the reading fro thursday 1/12.
• 011123 The zoom link for online office hours is located on the Links page

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Colonial and capitalist exploitation has left a trail of environmental destruction and devastated communities stretching across the globe. This course will apply an intersectional lens to analyzing racialized, gendered extractivist wastelands, environmental injustices and the movements struggling for alternate futures.

INSTRUCTOR
bt werner bwerner@ucsd.edu
Professor of Environmental Physics and Complex Systems
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Affiliate in Critical Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies

CLASS MEETINGS
Tuesday/Thursday 200-320PM Winter Quarter 2023 Classroom Location: HSS 1138

OFFICE HOURS (tentative)
Mondays 7-8PM Online
Tuesdays 100-150PM Mandeville Cafe and Online
Thursdays 945-1045AM Mandeville Cafe

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
Colonial, capitalist and imperialist exploitation of and damage to the environment ranges from local-scale sources of toxic pollution such as mines to regional-scale damage to (for example) aquifers and ecosystems to global-scale devastation of biodiversity and water, soil and climate systems. This destructive exploitation negatively impacts communities that have relationships with and depend on environmental systems, giving rise to environmental injustices. These injustices lead to community-based resistance movements that seek environmental justice and force the exploiting entities (nation states, corporations and other centers of power) to react, by accommodating, co-opting and/or repressing the movements.

In CGS 110, we will explore how this coupled system of environment, exploitive capitalism, injustice and resistance developed historically, as well as alternative historical pathways, with an emphasis on how community-led, intersectional resistance movements reveal exploitation and injustice, propose remedies and apply pressure to bring about change. Themes that will be stressed include local community capacity and knowledge, science's part in both facilitating exploitation and remediating some of its effects, the academic study of environmental justice, the roles of racism, patriarchy and ableism in creating and maintaining environmental injustices, and solidarity with impacted communities.

The first several weeks of the course will focus on a general discussion of environmental injustices and environmental justice, and a series of Critical Gender Studies Frameworks that can be used as analysis tools. The remaining weeks will be devoted to case studies covering food sovereignty, extractivism and gendered violence, environmental injustices of war, environmental ableism, anti-Black environmental violence, and climate change. Classes will include summaries of key material, discussion of assigned reading, applications of central concepts to contemporary environmental injustices and intersectional struggles, and role-play exercises and simulations of exploitive/extractive-resistance movement systems. This course is open to all UCSD students with upper-division standing.

PREREQUISITES
This course is open to all UCSD students from all majors with upper-division standing. You are not required to have taken a CGS course previously, and no particular set of knowledge or background will be assumed.

READING LIST AND REFERENCES
We will draw on the following resources for (1) selections to be read and discussed in class; (2) supplementary material for lectures and class discussions and (3) starting points for individual research.

• Sara Ahmed (2006) Queer Phenomenology, Duke University Press.
• Miguel A. Altieri (2009) Agroecology, Small Farms, and Food Sovereignty, Monthly Review, 61(3), 102-113.
• Julia Watts Belser, (2020) Disability, Climate Change, and Environmental Violence: The Politics of Invisibility and the Horizon of Hope, Disability Studies Quarterly, 40(4).
• David Andrew Biggs (2018) Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam. University of Washington Press.
• edna bonhomme (2018) Climate Justice Matters For Black Lives Now: Black Interventions in the Climate Crisis, Decolonization in Action Podcast.
• Chaz Briscoe (2020) Katrina 15: Black Climate Feminist Leadership Roundtable, Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy.
• M. Brito-Millán et al. (2019) No Comemos Baterías: Solidarity Science Against False Climate Change Solutions, Science for the People, 22(1), The Return of Radical Science.
• Leigh S. Brownhill, Wahu M. Kaara, and Terisa E. Turner (1997) Gender Relations and Sustainable Agriculture: Rural Women's Resistance to Structural Adjustment in Kenya, Canadian Woman Studies, 17(2), 40-44.
• Canadian Society of Unconventional Resources (2016) Understanding Tight Oil.
• Eileen Crist (2007) Beyond the Climate Crisis: A Critique of Climate Change Discourse, Telos, 141, 29–55.
• Jaskiran Dhillon (2018) Introduction: Indigenous Resurgence, Decolonization, and Movements for Environmental Justice, Environment and Society, 9(1), 1-5.
• Erle C. Ellis et al. (2021) People have Shaped Most of Terrestrial Nature for at Least 12,000 Years, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(17).
• Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (2012) Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (Second Edition), New York University Press, pages 19-38.
• Silvia Federici (2018) Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, PM Press.
• Silvia Federici (2021) Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism, PM Press.
• Silvia Federici (2004) Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Autonomedia.
• D Figueroa Romero, V Jiménez Estrada, S Guimont Marceau and R Rice (2017) Violence against Indigenous Women in the Americas, Final Report of the Virtual Forum on Violence against Indigenous Women in the Americas.
• Nancy Folbre (2021) The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems An Intersectional Political Economy, Verso.
• Stephen T. Garnettet al. (2018) A Spatial Overview of the Global Importance of Indigenous Lands for Conservation, Nature Sustainability, 1(7), 369-374.
• GRAIN, J Martinez-Alier, L Temper, S Munguti, P Matiku, H Ferreira, W Soares, MF Porto, V Raharinirina, W Haas, SJ Singh and A Mayer (2014) The Many Faces of Land Grabbing: Cases from Africa and Latin America, EJOLT Report No. 10. Introduction, pages 7-17; Successful Resistance and Valuation Languages, pages 54-72.
• Kim Q. Hall (2014) Toward a Queer Crip Feminist Politics of Food, PhiloSOPHIA, 4(2), 177-196.
• Kim Q. Hall (2014) No Failure: Climate Change, Radical Hope, and Queer Crip Feminist Eco-future, Radical Philosophy Review, 17(1), 203-225.
• Jack Holland (2019) A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice, Robinson.
• IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Summary for Policymakers, 1-31.
• T Jensen (2017) Women in the Fracklands: On Water, Land, Bodies, and Standing Rock, Catapult Magazine, January 3.
• Alison Kafer (2013) Feminist, Queer, Crip. Indiana University Press.
• RDG Kelley (2014) Why We Won't Wait, Counterpunch, November 25.
• EN Kellya, DW. Schindler, PV Hodson, JW Short, R Radmanovich and CC. Nielsen (2010) Oil Sands Development Contributes Elements Toxic at Low Concentrations to the Athabasca River and its Tributaries, PNAS, 107(37), 16178–16183.

• TM Komarek (2014) Crime and Natural Resource Booms: Evidence from Unconventional Natural Gas Production, The Annals of Regional Science, 1-25.
• Adam Koniuszewski (2016) Land Degradation from Military Toxics: Public Health Considerations and Possible Solution Paths, in Land Restoration, Academic Press, 119-131.
• Joan Kuyek (2019) Unearthing Justice How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry, Between the Lines.
• ED Lazarus (2014) Land Grabbing as a Driver of Environmental Change, Area, 46.1, 74–82.
• Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker (2013) The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, Beacon Press.
• G Lipsitz (2007) The Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race: Theorizing the Hidden Architecture of Landscape, Landscape Journal, 26(1), 10-23.

• Andreas Malm (2021) How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Verso.
• Robert McRuer (2006) Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, NYU Press.
• Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva (1993) Ecofeminism, Zed Books.
• Mia Mingus (2017) Forced Intimacy: An Ableist Norm, Leaving Evidence.
• Mia Mingus (2019) Transformative Justice: A Brief Description, Leaving Evidence.
• Paul Mohai, David Pellow and J. Timmons Roberts (2009) Environmental Justice, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 34, 405-430.
• Jennifer C. Nash (2018) Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality, Duke University Press.
• RC Patel (2012) Food Sovereignty: Power, Gender, and the Right to Food, PLoS Med 9(6), e1001223.
• Chris Pearson (2012) Researching Militarized Landscapes: A Literature Review on War and the Militarization of the Environment, Landscape Research, 37(1), 115-133.
• David Naguib Pellow (2017) What is Critical Environmental Justice?, Wiley.
• Laura Pulido (2000) Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 90(1), 12-40.
• Shamara Shantu Riley (2009) Ecology is a Sistah's Issue Too: The Politics of Emergent Afrocentric Ecowomanism, in This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment, Roger S. Gottlieb, ed., Routledge, 367-381.
• Andrea J. Ritchie (2019) Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, Beacon Press.
• Cedric J. Robinson (2020) Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition [Revised and Updated Third Edition], UNC Press.
• M Cristina Rullia, A Savioria, and P D’Odoricob (2013) Global Land and Water Grabbing, PNAS, 110, 892-897
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• Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson (2018) As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation, AK Press.
• James C. Scott (2008) Seeing Like a State, Yale University Press.
• James C. Scott (2009) The Art of Not Being Governed, Yale University Press.
• Vandana Shiva (2020) Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth, Synergetic Press.
• Dean Spade (2020) Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), Verso.
• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2017) How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Haymarket Books.
• K Whyte (2017) The Dakota Access Pipeline, Environmental Injustice, and US Colonialism, Red Ink, 154-169.
• Jeremy Williams (2021) Climate Change Is Racist: Race, Privilege, and the Struggle for Climate Justice, Icon Books.
• Raúl Zibechi (2014) Latin America Rejects the Extractive Model in the Streets, Green Social Thought, 65 (Fall), 5-7.
• Raúl Zibechi (2012) Territories in Resistance, AK Press.