Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and Covid-19 - Paperback

by Tatiana Konrad (Editor)

Informed by transdisciplinary research in social and environmental justice, Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19 is a contribution to the scholarly discourse as well as a form of activism for environmental, climate, and health justice. Using race and Indigeneity as an analytical lens, the book explores how justice in the era of climate change and COVID-19 is envisioned, depicted, and achieved. With a focus largely on humans and environments, its explorations of (in)justice illustrate the wide health and safety gaps between individuals, communities, and even nations living under different environmental conditions. The volume also moves beyond the human toward justice for all beings. This book foregrounds voices from world communities, provides solutions to environmental and health crises, and advances environmental justice.

Author Biography

Tatiana Konrad is the principal investigator of Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, and the editor of the Environment, Senses and Emotions book series at University of Exeter Press and the Environment, Health, and Well-being book series at Michigan State University Press. She has authored and edited several books, including Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis: The Industrial Revolution to the Present; Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism; and Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility.