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THEMATIC

CFP 8 - Thematic: Unequal Environments: Ecological Disparities and Violence
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Sponsor: Conflict, Social Action, and Change

Organizers: Jack Mitchel Mills, Florida State University
Andrew Schoeneman, University of Richmond

Presider: Jack Mitchel Mills, Florida State University

Description: 

Examining ecological disparities and violence demands an interdisciplinary lens that interrogates the complex interplay of environmental, cultural, political, and economic systems. This session explores how structural forces—including toxic colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental racism—produce and reinforce ecological injustices that disproportionately affect marginalized communities across global and local contexts. Papers may address a range of topics related to environmental inequality, including climate change, resource extraction, land, food and water access, pollution, and other forms of ecological violence.

Papers:

“‘Always Hunting for Water’: Everyday Adaptations and Insecurity beyond Cape Town’s Day Zero,” Kanyisile K. Brukwe, University of Cape Town

“Abolition, Emergent Strategy, and Reimagining Relationships to Land and Food in Chicago,” Zachary J. Kyle, University of Illinois Chicago

“Grievances and Greenlash: A Structural Equation Model of Perceived Discrimination, Populism, and Climate Attitudes,” Saman Seyfi, The University of Oklahoma

“Running Dry: The Covert Competition for Water under Industrial Colonialism in Curaçao,” Archana Ramanujam, Brown University

“When Institutions Fail Communities: A Critical Framework for Analyzing Water Crisis Governance,” Katrinell M. Davis, Florida State University

“‘The Dead River Is Killing Us’: Environmental Risk and Reproductive Decision-Making in Colombia’s Caribbean Coast,” Maria Ximena Davila, The University of Texas at Austin, Winner of the Environment & Technology Division’s Student Paper Competition

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