Environmental Justice
“We face so many overlapping and intersecting crises that we can’t afford to fix them one at a time. We need integrated solutions, solutions that radically bring down emissions while creating huge numbers of good, unionized jobs and delivering meaningful justice to those who have been most abused and excluded under the current extractive economy.” ― On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
Image credit: Layqa Nuna Yawar. (2021-2022). Between the Future Past. [Acrylic paint and inkjet print on fabric mounted to aluminum panel
18’h x 350’ w]. Photo: Nicholas Knight, courtesy Public Art Fund, NY.
Dates:
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 | Newark Express, 54 Halsey Street, 2nd Floor, Room 213, Newark, NJ 07102
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | Newark Express, 54 Halsey Street, 2nd Floor, Room 213, Newark, NJ 07102
Thursday, April 24, 2025 | Newark Express, 54 Halsey Street, 2nd Floor, Room 213, Newark, NJ 07102
Time(s): 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Accommodations: Please submit accommodation requests to sawyerseminar@newark.rutgers.edu by Friday, January 31, 2025.
Overview: Recent conversations about reparations in the United States have drawn on both history and analyses of current economic, social, and political perspectives to propose reparative practices that range from monetary compensation to targeted policies that address racial disparities in wealth, housing discrimination, and education access, among others. At a wider scale, scholars like Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò have offered a constructivist view of reparations that proposes a historically informed project of distributive justice that serves a larger and broader world-making process. The project of reparations, therefore, has a forward-facing orientation that by necessity is anchored in the past.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025:
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
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