Today@Dal

There is a history in Nova Scotia of rendering mute the complex and specific ways in which race and class get written into environmental policies that dictate where and how polluting industries and other environmental harms are located.

Environmental decision-making and local land-use planning operate at the intersection of science, economics, politics, and special interests in ways that put the health and socio-economic well-being of communities of colour at risk. Therefore, there is a need to look at the interrelationship between race, environment, and vulnerability.

How do racial meanings become embedded in decisions about where polluting industries and other environmental threats are located?

How does environmental racism legitimize the exposure of economically and politically disenfranchised communities to harmful chemicals, pesticides, and other environmental threats?

How do poverty, institutional and systemic racism, and a lack of political power and representation contribute to environmental racism?

How does environmental racism reflect the ways in which the State has governed subjects differently based on hierarchies of race, gender, culture, and class?

How is environmental racism shaped by and shaping interactive relations of coloniality, capitalism, racism, class, and gender?

What impacts do these factors have on the health and socio-economic well-being of Mi’kmaw and African Nova Scotian communities?

How can we foster alliances and create solidarity among differently positioned people of colour, Indigenous peoples, and white allies to build the necessary political power to end environmental racism?

Please join me on Thursday, September 10 at 7 PM in the Boardroom at the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs for a discussion on environmental racism in Nova Scotia.

Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1462836744039466/

Date: Thursday, September 10, 2015

Time: 7 PM-8:30 PM

Location: Canadian Center for Ethics in Public Affairs (CCEPA) Boardroom, 630 Francklyn Street

Light refreshments

Space is limited

Registration required: admin@ccepa.ca OR 902-428-1416

Hosted by Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs: "Ethics in the Evening" Program