Environmental Justice

Examines how women’s situated experiences of environmental injustice become knowledge, collective power, and social change. Course investigates how gender intersects with race, class, Indigeneity, neurotype, age to shape exposure to harm, environmental perception, credibility, and responsibility. Through cases including Rachel Carson, Vandana Shiva, Heather Toney, Margaret Gordon, Greta Thunberg, Winona LaDuke, and the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), course traces how harm is made visible, lived experience becomes legitimate knowledge, emotion and identity produce mobilization, relational responsibility sustains resistance, and collective efficacy builds transformative institutions. The course asks how psychological processes can help explain the persistence of environmental injustice and change.