“Environmental Justice Abroad”
University Inn Conference Center
Rutgers University
October 16, 2004
PROGRAM
9:00 Welcome
and Prospectus
Schroeder,
Richard. Rutgers University.
St. Martin,
Kevin. Rutgers University.
Figueroa, Robert M. Colgate University. A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Environmental Justice: Distribution, Recognition, and Environmental Heritage.
Carruthers,
David V. San Diego State University. The Globalization of
Environmental Justice: Lessons from the US-Mexico Border.
Discussion
10:15 Coffee Break
10:30
Environmental Racism Abroad
Sundberg, Juanita. University
of British Columbia. Exploring the Place of Race in Environmental
Justice Approaches in Latin America.
Hughes, David M. Rutgers University. In Whitest Africa: Environmental Racism at Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe.
11:30 The Injustices of Conservation
King, Brian. The University of Texas at Austin. Envisioning development in the former KaNgwane homeland, South Africa.
Schroeder, Richard. Rutgers University. Environmental
Justice and the Market: The Politics of Sharing Wildlife Revenues in Tanzania.
12:30 Lunch
Moore, Sarah. University of Kentucky. The Power of Waste: Garbage Politics in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Rocheleau, Dianne. Clark University. Power and Justice on the Rural/Urban Fringe: Where the
Forest Meets the Pavement in the Dominican Republic.
Leichenko, Robin M.
Rutgers University and Solecki, William D. Hunter College, CUNY. Exporting
the American Dream: Consumption Landscapes and Environmental Justice in
Developing World Cities.
Perreault, Thomas. Syracuse University. From the ‘Guerra
del Agua’ to the ‘Guerra del Gas’: Resource governance, popular protest, and
social justice in Bolivia.
Discussion
3:30 Break
Sneddon, Christopher S. Dartmouth College. Struggles over dams as struggles for justice: the WCD and anti-dam campaigns in Thailand and Mozambique.
Wolford, Wendy. UNC Chapel Hill. Agrarian Populism and
the Politics of Scale in Brazil.
Crate, Susan A. George Mason University. How Can Issues of Environmental Justice Gain Importance on the Russian Environmental Agenda?
Discussion
5:10 Commentary
Wilson, Bradley. Rutgers University.
Sen, Debarati. Rutgers University.