Science, Technology and Environmental Justice

Environmental justice (EJ) activists and scholars have long utilized a broad range of methodologies to pursue environmental justice outcomes including the collection and dissemination of scientific evidence. However, scientists and technologists do not always see themselves as implicated in these liberation struggles. This course investigates these questions: (1) How has science and technology historically caused harm to EJ communities? and (2) How can science and technology be employed in the study of and fight against environmental injustice? This course engages with this question by first examining foundational history about the EJ movement, then studying the role of science and technology in the environmental justice movement, and finally considering different theoretical frameworks and methodology for contesting environmental injustice.


11.068: 12 units, spring semester




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