Overview

Informed by transdisciplinary research in social and environmental justice, Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19 is a contribution to the scholarly discourse as well as a form of activism for environmental, climate, and health justice. Using race and Indigeneity as an analytical lens, the book explores how justice in the era of climate change and COVID-19 is envisioned, depicted, and achieved. With a focus largely on humans and environments, its explorations of (in)justice illustrate the wide health and safety gaps between individuals, communities, and even nations living under different environmental conditions. The volume also moves beyond the human toward justice for all beings. This book foregrounds voices from world communities, provides solutions to environmental and health crises, and advances environmental justice.

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9781611865288

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Reviews

“Tatiana Konrad’s highly engaging, powerfully written, and path-breaking volume, Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19, is a must-read for anyone interested in cutting-edge scholarship that links the topics of environmental, climate, health, and racial justice from a global perspective. Also crucial in this well-researched book are potent discussions from powerful emerging scholars and activists who seek to explore various manifestations of environmental injustices and their consequences from an international viewpoint.”—Eric R. Jackson, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of history and Black studies, Northern Kentucky University “Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19, edited by Tatiana Konrad, is a timely exploration of the intersections of escalating racial, environmental, and health injustices in the era of climate change and the pandemic. A must-read for anyone invested in social justice.”—Cedric Taylor, associate professor of sociology at Central Michigan University and director of Nor Any Drop to Drink: Flint’s Water Crisis

Author Information

Tatiana Konrad is the principal investigator of Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, and the editor of the Environment, Health, and Well-being book series at Michigan State University Press. She has the authored and edited several books, including Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis: The Industrial Revolution to the Present, Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism, and Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility.

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