Decolonizing Restorative Enviro Justice

Decolonizing Our Understanding to Restorative Environmental Justice in the Gulf Coast Region

This seven-week travel course will provide an opportunity for learners to co-produce informed, culturally humble, justice-centered strategies and solutions around climate adaption in the Gulf Coast region that amplify the lived realities of the some of the most historically disenfranchised, most impacted people and areas in the communities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge through an integrated partnership with HBCU Southern University and Columbia University.

Course Objectives

• Learners will interpret and analyze critical theories and frameworks for real world application to advance understanding of environmental/ climate injustice and its impact on vulnerable communities.
• Learners will examine real world cases in the Gulf Coast region, most specifically using New Orleans and Baton Rouge as a site for field exploration and solutions-oriented approaches to climate justice through community partnerships.
• Learners will work with community organizations in the Gulf Coast region to co-construct and or support solutions to current challenge around climate adaptation.