Climate Justice Network (https://www.climatejusticenetwork.org/) invites proposals for an international virtual workshop scheduled for June 28-30, 2021. This Workshop will host a selected group of young scholars and scholar activists focused on climate justice in urban and rapidly urbanizing areas of the global South, including the South within the global North, i.e., frontline black and brown communities and indigenous peoples in North America.

Deadline: April 16.

For more information, please see: https://www.climatejusticenetwork.org/international-virtual-workshop-on-urban-climate-justice

 

In solidarity,
Prakash

 

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Prakash Kashwan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut
Co-Director, Research Program on Economic and Social Rights, Human Rights Institute

 

Editor, Environmental Politics
Senior Research Fellow, Earth System Governance Project
External Faculty Affiliate, Ostrom Workshop, Bloomington                                                   

University of Connecticut
365 Fairfield Way, Storrs, CT 06269
Phone: 860-486-7951
https://kashwan.net/

Book: Democracy in the Woods (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment: A Cross-National Analysis (Ecological Economics 2017)
Rethinking power and institutions in the shadows of neoliberalism (World Development 2019).
Planetary justice: Prioritizing the poor in earth system governance (Earth System Governance 2020).
The UN declaration on the rights of peasants, national policies, and forestland rights (The International Journal of Human Rights 2021).
Climate Justice in the Global North (Case Studies in the Environment 2021).

Popular Press: Environmental Racism (The Conversation).