- Fallon Samuels Aidoo
- Myung Ae Choi
- Daneeta Loretta Jackson
- Scott Gabriel Knowles
- Louisiana Landmarks Society (LLS)
- Wendi Moore O'Neal
- Christopher Oliver
- Marylee Orr
- Michael Orr
- Buhm Soon Park
- Wilma Subra
- Jeffrey Treffinger
Seminar: Risk/Equity
Risk to life and wellbeing are emblematic of the Anthropocene yet many risks are not shared nor accounted for amid the slow disasters of faulty infrastructure and exclusionary spatial practices that leave marginalized people in harm’s way. This seminar articulates how risk assessment and management are at the heart of environmental justice.
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- contributionFallon Samuels Aidoo, Myung Ae Choi, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Christopher Oliver
Risk & Equity in the Louisiana Anthropocene
On the different manifestations and impacts of the Louisiana Anthropocene, which have been lent somber new resonance in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Film, Reflection, Sensing, Affect, Agency, Care, Climate change, Carbon, Environmental Justice, Disaster, Extraction, Pollution, Race, Local knowledge
- contributionScott Gabriel Knowles, Ashley Rogers
Layers of Violence
From agricultural slavery to petroleum, the banks of the Mississippi in Louisiana represent an Anthropocenic space characterized by a slow history of extraction.
Field Work, Teaching, Engagement, Reflection, Slavery, Capitalism, Violence, Equality, History, Race, Extraction
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Norco, Louisiana, USA
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Norco, Louisiana, USA
Program details
Seminar Slot I: November 11–13, 2019
Conveners
Fallon Samuels Aidoo
Scott Gabriel Knowles
Christopher Oliver
Experts
Myung Ae Choi
Jeffrey Treffinger, CAWIC-Citizens Against Widening the Industrial Canal
John Koeferl, CAWIC-Citizens Against Widening the Industrial Canal
Sandra Stokes, Louisiana Landmarks Society
Marylee Orr, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, LEAN
Michael Orr, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, LEAN
Buhm Soon Park
Wilma Subra, Louisiana Environmental Action Network
Wendi Moore-O’Neal, Jalliyah Consulting
Daneeta Loretta Jackson
