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Environmental justice 2017 – looking back, looking forward

A retrospective look at environmental justice scholarship and activism and the prospects and themes for current and future work in the field.

Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney, celebrates the 20-year anniversary of the original Environment Justice conference. The 2017 conference, like the inaugural event hosted by University of Melbourne, had an interdisciplinary focus bringing together scholars and activists addressing Environmental Justice in both human communities and nonhuman nature. The 2017 event lookes retrospectively at environmental justice scholarship and activism, while also looking forward towards the prospects and themes for current and future work in the field. What have we learned? What are the key challenges, trends, and directions for environmental justice theories, movements and campaigns, and what impact will this have on institutions and politics?

This event was held at the University of Sydney on Monday 6 - Wednesday 8 November 2017, in partnership with h Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre and the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney.

Header image: by Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network.

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Environmental justice series

23 November 2017

EJ Series part 1: post-hegemonic futures: decolonising intergenerational environmental justice

This blog is based on a paper presented by Christine Winter at the Environmental Justice 2017 Conference, Sydney University, 6-8 November 2017.

30 November 2017

EJ Series, part 2: your place or mine? Environmental (in)justice in Myanmar and Australian activism

Johanna Garnett highlights the transnational environmental justice issues and consequences which stemmed from activism against the development of a gas hub at James Price Point, Western Australia. This blog is based on a paper presented by Johanna Garnett at the Environmental Justice 2017 Conference, University of Sydney, 6-8 November 2017.

06 December 2017

EJ Series, part 3: (re)articulating sustainable hydropower: the resistance against Belo Monte

This blog is based on a paper presented by Ed Atkins at the Environmental Justice 2017 Conference, University of Sydney, 6-8 November 2017, and is a part of his broader PhD research.

11 December 2017

EJ series, part 4: propagules, pumps and briny relations

Susan Reid offers meditations on the material liveliness and relationality of the ocean itself as providing conditions in which alter-imaginaries for governance might emerge. This blog is based on a paper presented at the Environmental Justice 2017: Looking Back, Looking Forward Conference, University of Sydney, 6-8 November 2017.

11 December 2017

EJ Series, part 5: climate change, urban heat and ethnically diverse communities

This blog is based on a paper presented by Phil McManus at the Environmental Justice 2017 Conference, University of Sydney, 6-8 November 2017.