Sawyer Seminar Series

The SASN-Audible Environmental and Climate Justice Lecture What Now?!: Research, Learning, & Doing During Climate Catastrophe and Hyper-racial Capitalism brings together community organizers, scholars, and students to examine the existential challenges posed by climate change. This event will feature a keynote by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, author of Reconsidering Reparations and Elite Capture, Vincent Mann, Chief of the Ramapough Lenape Nation Turtle Clan, María López … Read More

Restorative and reparative environmental justice is preoccupied with both past and ongoing harms that have been inflicted on communities and the limitations that come with developing and enforcing meaningful environmental regulations under traditional, legalistic approaches to environmentalism and conservation. But newer humanities-influenced approaches to environmental justice consider a future built from individual and collective actions … Read More

NEW START TIME: 11:00AM (EST)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. Register at go.rutgers.edu/reparations.