Urban@UW’s Urban Environmental Justice Initiative is hosting a virtual roundtable examining the ways a changing climate and extreme weather events are giving shape to local places, communities, and politics. Moderated by the UEJ Initiative Faculty Lead, Rubén Casas, participants include Kenneth Walker, author of Climate Politics on the Border: Environmental Justice Rhetorics (2022) and Nik Janos, co-editor of Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice (2021). Walker and Janos are joined by Marisol Cortez, author of the Chicanx cli-fi novel Luz at Midnight (2020) and Co-Editor of Deceleration, a grassroots media project that covers environmental justice news and analysis for South Texas.

Central to the work of these writers and scholars are the contradictions that emerge as people, communities, and politicians pursue, promote, and enact responses and solutions to extreme weather events and in the pursuit of environmental justice. Likewise, these scholars show us how emergent responses that are imbricated in capitalist logics re-inscribe settler-colonial dynamics that further environmental injustice.

See the event page for more details and registration.