CRI387H1: Environmental Justice and Green Criminology

36L

This course offers an introduction to the justice dimensions of environmental degradation. From an environmental justice perspective, it looks at how the climate crisis, toxic exposure, and other environmental harms are disproportionately borne by marginalized communities, and differentially experienced across intersections of race, class, gender, etc. From a green criminology perspective, it looks at the nature of environmental crime and its victims (whether human, animal, or the non-human environment). Interrogating the relationship between power, justice, and the environment, the course offers strategies for environmental, legal, and political transformation coming out of diverse climate justice movements. Critically analyzing environmental harm, this course asks: who bears responsibility, and who bears the burden?

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