Session 1: Course Welcoming, Framing & Launch (January 9)

• Session 1 Slides (with Agenda)

Session 2: Overview of Environmental Justice (January 16, MLK Jr. Holiday, asynchronous session)

• Slides for Sessions 2 and 3 (combined deck)

• Book: Braiding Sweetgrass, Preface & Planting Sweetgrass section (pp. ix - 59)

• Chapter: Murdock, E. G. (2020). A History of Environmental Justice: Foundations, Narratives, and Perspectives. In B. Coolsaet (ed.), Environmental Justice: Key Issues(pp. 6-17). Routledge. 

• Short Report: Just Transition Principles (from Climate Justice Alliance). Please review their elaborated diagram in the section Analysis, Framework & Strategy section of this page. 

• Background Resource: Principles of Environmental Justice, drafted and adopted by the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in 1991 in DC

• Background Resource: Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing, from meeting hosted by Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (SNEEJ), Jemez, New Mexico, December 1996

• Online: Review the Justice40 Resource Guide from the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice and the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice 

• Podcast Episode: Interview of Rebecca Solnit on Feminism and Climate Justice by Mary Annaïse Heglar & Amy Westervelt (Hot Take podcast)

• Chapter: Maureen H. Murray, Jacqueline Buckley, Kaylee A. Byers, Kimberly Fake, Elizabeth W. Lehrer, Seth B. Magle, Christopher Stone, Holly Tuten & Christopher J. Schell. (2022). One Health for All: Advancing Human and Ecosystem Health in Cities by Integrating an Environmental Justice Lens. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 53(1), 403-426. 

OPTIONAL READINGS:

• Technical Article: Schell CJ, Dyson K, Fuentes TL, Des Roches S, Harris NC, Miller DS, Woelfle-Erskine CA, Lambert MR. The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments. Science. 2020 Sep 18;369(6510):eaay4497. doi: 10.1126/science.aay4497. Epub 2020 Aug 13. PMID: 32792461.

• Video Presentation: Dr. Chris Schell on Ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments (October 30, 2020, 47 min)

• Short Article: UW research shows racism and redlining hurt local wildlife, too, a brief summary of the Schell et al. research

Session 3: Overview of Climate Justice & Climate Colonialism (January 23)

• Slides for Sessions 2 and 3 (combined deck)

• Book: Braiding Sweetgrass, Tending Sweetgrass section (pp. 63-120)

• Article: Sultana, F. (2021). Critical Climate Justice. Geographical Journal, 188(1), 118-124. DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12417

• Article: Sultana, F. (2022). The Unbearable Heaviness of Climate Coloniality. Political Geography, 99(1). DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102638 

• Background Resource: Bali Principles of Climate Justice, 29 August 2002

• Report: Skim the K-12 Climate Action Plan from This Is Planet Ed (Aspen Institute) and read portions that interest you

• Short Articles:

  • White Allies, Let’s Be Honest About Decolonization by Dr. Kyle Powys Whyte

  • The Great Climate Migration by Abrahm Lustgarten, Part 1 (of 3) (audio version available)

• Podcast Episode: Olúfémi O. Táíwò on Climate Colonialism And Reparations (For the Wild podcast)

Session 4: Telling Stories of Ghosts, Monsters & Carers (January 30)

• Session 4 Slides

• Book: Braiding Sweetgrass, Picking Sweetgrass section (pp. 121-204)

• Book Section: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene (eds. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt)

  • Read: Ghosts on a Damaged Planet, Introduction: Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene by Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Heather Anne Swanson

  • Read: Monsters and the Arts of Living, Introduction: Bodies Tumbled into Bodies by Heather Anne Swanson, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, and Elaine Gan

  • Select and read one chapter of personal interest

• Podcast Episode: Reflections on the Plantationocene: A Conversation with Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing (Edge Effects podcast)

• Podcast Episode: The Best of End Times: A Conversation with Anna Tsing (Edge Effects podcast)

• Media: Explore the Feral Atlas

• Article: Escobar, A. (2020). Designing as a Futural Praxis for the Healing of the Web of Life. In Tony Fry and Adam Nocek, Design in Crisis: New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices (pp. 25-42): Routledge. 

• Article: Whyte, K. (2018). Indigenous science (fiction) for the Anthropocene: Ancestral dystopias and fantasies of climate change crises. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1(1–2) 224–242. DOI: 10.1177/2514848618777621

• Climate Fiction: Select one story to read from the Imagine 2200 Year 1 Collection or Year 2 Collection (from Grist's Fix Solutions Lab)

Session 5: Interlude (February 6)

• Book: Braiding Sweetgrass, Braiding Sweetgrass section (pp. 205-302)

Session 6: Kinning, Relationality & Ecological Caring (February 13)

• Book: Braiding Sweetgrass, Burning Sweetgrass section & Epilogue (pp. 303-384)

• Article: Teaching Kincentric Ecology in an Urban Environment by Enrique Salmon

• Chapter: “Kinning: Introducing the Kinship Series” by Gavin Van Horn from Kinship: Belonging In a World of Relations

• Explore the Online Art Exhibit: Making Kin — Worlds Becoming

• Article: ‘Nothing comes without its world’: Thinking with care by Dr. María Puig de la Bellacasa

• Chapter: “Black Gold” by Leah Penniman from All We Can Save

• Chapter: The Politics of Contaminated Kin by Lilian Pearce

• Optional — Speculative Fiction Chapter: The Camille Stories by Dr. Donna Haraway from Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (33 pages)

Session 7: Indigenous Leadership & Knowledge Systems  (February 20, no class, asynchronous session)

• Book: The Mushroom at the End of the World, Prologue - Chapter 4 (pp. vii - 70)

• Background Resources on Indigenous Resurgence & Settler-Colonialism:

  • Video: Change the Story, Change the Future (from Illuminative)

  • Background on Settler-Colonialism: review the definition on page 3 of this resource and also read this short article

• Chapter: Indigenous Prophecy and Mother Earth by Sherri Mitchell from All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

  • Alternative (video interview): What Could Possibly Go Right? with Sherri Mitchell

• Video Webinar: Pedagogical Commitments for Climate Justice Education with Drs. Fikile Nxumalo & Pablo Montes

• Article: Reflections on the Purpose of Indigenous Environmental Education by Kyle Powys Whyte from the Handbook of Indigenous Education

• Instructional Resources: Explore the Indigenous STEAM website

• Optional Podcast: Conversations on the Climate Crisis (Episode 174 of Media Indigena)

Session 8: Indigenous Leadership & Knowledge Systems  (continued, February 27)

• Book: The Mushroom at the End of the World, Chapter 5 - Interlude (pp. 71 - 144)

• Explore these Practice Briefs (i.e., follow the embedded links)

  • Teaching STEM In Ways that Respect and Build Upon Indigenous Peoples' Rights by Marissa Spang and Megan Bang (STEM Teaching Tool #10, PDF)

  • Implementing Meaningful STEM Education with Indigenous Students & Families by Marissa Spang and Megan Bang (STEM Teaching Tool #11, PDF)

Session 9: Indigenous Response & Fighting Invasive Infrastructures of Empire (March 6)

• Book: The Mushroom at the End of the World, Prologue - Part III - Chapter 16 (pp. 149 - 225)

• Article: Worlding beyond ‘the’ ‘end’ of ‘the world’: white apocalyptic visions and BIPOC futurisms by Audra Mitchell & Aadita Chaudhury

• Video Recording: Braiding Kinship and Time: Indigenous Approaches to Environmental Justice by Dr. Kyle Whyte

• Article: Fighting Invasive Infrastructures: Indigenous Relations against Pipelines by Anne Spice

  • Alternative (audio interview): Canada is illegal with Dr. Karla Tait & Dr. Anne Spice

Session 10: Multiple Ways of Knowing, Doing, Being & Valuing (March 13)

• Book: The Mushroom at the End of the World, Chapter 17 - Spore Trail (pp. 226-288)

• Article: Multiple Ways Of Knowing: Re-Imagining Disciplinary Learning by Beth Warren, Shirin Vossoughi, Ann S. Rosebery, Megan Bang, and Edd V. Taylor, In Handbook of Cultural Foundations of Learning

• Article: Nature–Culture Constructs in Science Learning: Human/Non-Human Agency and Intentionality by Megan Bang & Ananda Marin

• Article / Recording: Myrtle’s Medicine by Kinitra Brooks

• Article (review the pedagogical model and design principles): Youth as pattern makers for racial justice: How speculative design pedagogy in science can promote restorative futures through radical care practices by Kathleen Arada, Anastasia Sanchez & Philip Bell