Environmental Justice Worldmaking

With support from the Humanities Without Walls Grant, this collaboration between the University of Minnesota Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, the Environmental Justice Table, and Spelman College brings those communities most affected by climate crises in those cities into conversations about local solutions. 

Environmental Justice Worldmaking (EJW) is a node that brings together overarching Environmental Justice principles and commitments to antiracism, direct democracy, and a just transition. Environmental Justice is a longstanding fight waged by African American and Indigenous activists against the racialized dumping of the toxic byproducts of capitalist-industrialist society into their communities. It is a project which aims to identify and counter the many instances where systemic racism and environmental destruction intersect. 

Here, together, we are imagining ways of decolonial resistance and care that extend to human, plant, and animal kin in a local-global context.