CRSN 120: SUST & JUSTICE

University of California, Santa Cruz

Examines environmental justice movements across the hemispheric Americas, with a focus on how power, inequality, and resistance shape struggles over land, water, and sustainability. Case studies show how Indigenous peoples, rural communities, and grassroots organizations confront extractivism, privatization, state violence, and unsustainable development. Students engage with concepts of sovereignty, migration, sustainability, and more-than-human relations, while reflecting on their own positionalities.