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Teaching Environmental Justice: Practices to Engage Students and Build Community (Edward Elgar, 2023). Table of Contents
Introduction - Teaching Environmental Justice: Co-creating a Faculty Development Model Sikina Jinnah, Jessie Dubreuil, Jody Greene and Samara S. Foster Section I – Projects for Teaching Environmental Politics & Justice Chapter 1 –Protest Music: Using Music to Challenge (Environmental) Hegemony, Kemi Fuentes-George Chapter 2 - Epochs of Domination and Liberation: Expanding Students’ Understanding of Human-Environment Relationships in the Service of Environmental Justice, David Pellow Chapter 3 –Rethinking Sustainable Development Practice: From Intervention to Reparation, Manisha Anantharaman and Jennifer Lee Tucker Chapter 4 - Climate Justice: Fostering Student Public Engagement, Prakash Kashwan Chapter 5 –Teaching Perspective in an Unequal World: Negotiating Climate Change within the UN System, Kate O’Neill and Sebastián Rubiano-Galvis Chapter 6 - Should Solar Geoengineering be used to Address Climate Change? An Ethics Bowl-Inspired Approach, Sikina Jinnah and Juan Moreno-Cruz Chapter 7 - Power in Natural Resource Governance Project: Power Hierarchies in the Negotiation of an International Petroleum Contract, Alero Akporiaye and D.G. Webster Chapter 8 –Relationships, Respect, and Reciprocity: Approaches to Learning and Teaching about Indigenous Cultural Burning and Landscape Stewardship, Beth Rose Middleton Manning Chapter 9 – Harnessing Humor for Tough Talks: Humanitarian Experiences Addressing Exclusion and Climate Risks, Pablo Suarez Chapter 10 – Using Contemplative Practice to Sustain Equitable Environmental Engagement, Elizabeth Allison Chapter 11 –The Global Environmental Justice Observatory: Fostering Students' Knowledge Production, Professionalization and Belonging, Ravi Rajan and Flora Lu Section II Reflections from the Outside the Silo Chapter 12 - Colonization of Fire: Why Biophysical Sciences must Teach Environmental Justice, Crystal Kolden Chapter 13 - How Relational Learning Can Disrupt the Scientific Cultural Status Quo: Lessons from Astronomy, Kathryne J. Daniel & Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz Chapter 14 - Using Socially Engaged Art to Teach Environmental and Social Justice, Chessa Adsit-Morris Chapter 15 - Teaching Feminist Economics to Challenge the Hidden Assumptions in Economics, Juan Moreno-Cruz Chapter 16 - Community Engaged Research in the Natural Sciences: Centering Listening in the Classroom, Kristy Kroeker Chapter 17- Teaching Students How to Get Comfortable with the Uncomfortable Feeling of Not Knowing, Robin Dunkin Chapter 18 - How Online Teaching and Learning Can Support the Public Mission of Research Universities, Michael Tassio Chapter 19 –Embodying Social and Environmental Justice Learning through Somatic and Mindfulness Practices, Sapana Doshi & Tracey Osborne |
Dr. Sikina Jinnah is a Professor of Environmental Studies, an affiliated graduate faculty of Politics at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC). She is the Associate Director for the UCSC Center for Reimagining Leadership (CRL) where she also directs CRL's Climate Justice Fellows Program. She is also an 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Her research focuses on global environmental governance, with a focus on climate change, solar geoengineering, and the nexus between international trade and environmental politics. Most recently she has been working to develop theoretically derived recommendations for the governance of solar geoengineering technologies. She publishes on this topic in her academic work, recently in Science, WIRES Climate Change, and Energy Research and Social Science, and in her capacity as co-chair of the recently concluded Advisory Committee for Harvard University's Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx). Her first book ("Post-treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance," MIT Press 2014) received the 2016 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for best book in international environmental affairs from the International Studies Association. The book examines the role of international bureaucracies in managing the politics of overlapping international regimes in the areas of biodiversity, climate change and international trade. Her second book (with Simon Nicholson), "New Earth Politics: Essays from the Anthropocene" (MIT Press 2016) engages leading scholars in a discussion over the role of global environmental politics in the age of the Anthropocene. Her 2020 book, "Greening through Trade" (MIT) examines the role of US preferential trade agreements in influencing environmental politics abroad and was a finalist for the 2021 Canadian Political Science Association's Prize in International Relations. She is also the co-author of a textbook entitled, "Global Environmental Politics: Understanding the Governance of the Earth" (Oxford University Press, 2020). She also the editor of "Trajectories in Environmental Politics" (Routledge 2022) and "Teaching Environmental Politics and Justice" (2023, Edward Elgar). Dr. Jinnah's research has also been published in several scholarly journals, including: Nature Geoscience, Global Environmental Politics, Global Governance, International Studies Review, Environmental Politics, the Journal of Environment and Development, Environmental Research Letters, Berkeley Journal of International Law Publicist, Climate Policy, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Energy Research and Social Science, and Science. Jinnah currently serves on the editorial board for the journal Global Environmental Politics, and Environmental Politics, and co-edits an MIT Press book series (with Simon Nicholson), called One Planet. She also serves on the UC Press Editorial Board. Prior to coming to UCSC Jinnah was an Assistant and Associate Professor of International Relations at American University's School of International Service. She held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies and was also a consultant for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), where she reported on CITES and UNFCCC processes for IISD's Earth Negotiations Bulletin. Degrees: PhD, Environmental Science, Policy and Management U.C. Berkeley MS, Environmental Studies University of Montana, Missoula BA (honors), Environmental Science U.C. Berkeley |