“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.

 

9:15  Traveling Concepts

 

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.

 

Discussion

 

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.

 

Discussion

 

12:30 Lunch

 

1:30 Contested Access to Urban Resources

 

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

 

3:40 Transnational Environmental Justice Movements

 

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.

 

Discussion

 

5:45 Concluding Remarks