Literature and Society: Global Perspectives on Environmental Justice in Literature and Film

This interdisciplinary seminar explores responses to unequal access to resources and exposure to risk amid widening economic disparity. To engage these concerns, we venture to India, the Caribbean, South Africa, France, Kenya, Palestine, the U.S., Japan, the Faroe Islands, the UK, Australia, and Cambodia. Issues include: climate justice, the Anthropocene, intergenerational injustice, water security, food security, deforestation, the commons and the politics of access, Indigenous movements and cosmologies, environmentalism of the poor, the gendered and racial dimensions of environmental justice, and the role of writer-activists.