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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"adobe-garamond-pro",serif;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">We invite proposals for an international virtual workshop
that the Climate Justice Network (</span><a href="https://www.climatejusticenetwork.org/" style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"adobe-garamond-pro",serif;color:rgb(61,153,145);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">https://www.climatejusticenetwork.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"adobe-garamond-pro",serif;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="color:rgba(26,26,26,0.7);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">) will organize during June 28-30, 2021, as part
of a Special Funds project supported by the American Political Science
Association (APSA). This Workshop will host a selected group of young and
under-represented scholars and practitioners 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.<span></span></span></span></p>

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For more information, please see: <a href="https://www.climatejusticenetwork.org/international-virtual-workshop-on-urban-climate-justice" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://www.climatejusticenetwork.org/international-virtual-workshop-on-urban-climate-justice</a><span></span></span></p>

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Prakash<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">Prakash Kashwan, Ph.D.<br>
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut<br>
Co-Director, Research Program on Economic and Social Rights, Human Rights
Institute<span></span></span></p>

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Senior Research Fellow, Earth System Governance Project<br>
External Faculty Affiliate, Ostrom Workshop,
Bloomington                                                   
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University of Connecticut<br>
365 Fairfield Way, Storrs, CT 06269<br>
Phone: </span><span><a href="tel:860-486-7951" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif;color:blue">860-486-7951</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif"><br>
</span><span><a href="http://prakash-kashwan.uconn.edu/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif;color:blue">http://prakash-kashwan.uconn.edu/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif"> <br>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">Book: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Woods-Environmental-Conservation-Comparative/dp/0190637382/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif;color:blue">Democracy in
the Woods</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">
(Oxford University Press, 2017).<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800915301191" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif;color:blue">Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment: A Cross-National
Analysis</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif"> (<i>Ecological
Economics 2017</i>)<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X18301748" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif;color:blue">Rethinking
power and institutions in the shadows of neoliberalism</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif"> (<i>World Development 2019</i>).<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811620300343" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif;color:blue">Planetary
justice: Prioritizing the poor in earth system governance</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif"> (<i>Earth System Governance 2020</i>).<br>
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2021.1874940" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:blue">The UN declaration on the rights of peasants, national policies, and
forestland rights</span></a> (<i>The International Journal of Human Rights</i> 2021).<br>
<a href="https://online.ucpress.edu/cse/article-abstract/5/1/1125003/116311/Climate-Justice-in-the-Global-NorthAn-Introduction" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:blue">Climate Justice in the Global North</span></a> (<i>Case
Studies in the Environment 2021)</i>. <br>
<br>
Popular Press: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://theconversation.com/american-environmentalisms-racist-roots-have-shaped-global-thinking-about-conservation-143783" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif;color:blue">Environmental
Racism</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif"> (The
Conversation).</span>



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