TYLER McCREARY
ISS 2937 - ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
This course engages with the history, core concepts, and effects of the environmental justice movement, examining how race and class interact to produce and sustain environmental inequities. Foundationally, it approaches environmental issues from a lens attentive to issues of social justice. Course materials highlight the need to address thorny environmental issues and their long-term consequences including the disproportionate burdening of historically marginalized communities with debilitation, displacement, and death.
Specifically, the course aims to address four aspects of environmental justice. First, it stresses how settler colonialism and racial capitalism have particularly burdened Black and Indigenous peoples with slow-acting, chronic environmental harms in North America. Second, it analyzes how environmental inequities continue to be normalized in law, policy, and bureaucratic government procedures. Third, it elucidates how disasters reproduce and exacerbate pre-existing forms of inequality within and between communities. Finally, it underlines the need to integrate anti-racist analysis into policies addressing the climate crisis, as we seek to reorganize how people live and work to create both a just and sustainable society.
[Requirements Satisfied: Diversity in Western Experience (Y),Social Science and Upper Division Writing (UDW).]
Dr. Tyler McCreary is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Florida State University. His research examines how settler colonialism and racial capitalism inflect processes of environmental, labour, and community governance in North America. His research has analyzed themes such as how North American environmental governance processes address Black and Indigenous community concerns; the differential impacts of sociotechnical transitions in North American labour markets; and how urban and regional governance processes relate to the historic marginalization of Indigenous and Black families living in towns and cities.
To learn more about Dr. McCreary, visit his webpage on The Department of Geography's website: https://geography.fsu.edu/people/tyler-mccreary/.