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Webinar – Crossing Latinidades: Climate and Environmental Justice
November 18, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CST
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In US cities, regions, and territories, low-income Latina/o populations often reside in communities sensitive to pollution and climate change events such as droughts, extreme heat, and wildfires. Public policy can often trigger these inequities by forcing people to live in precarious and underserved communities with limited access to resilient infrastructure, services, and opportunities. However, even though climate change disproportionately impacts and displaces Latino communities, there is sparse research within Latino Studies on how these experiences threaten their health, safety, and neighborhood well-being.
The overarching research question of the Climate and Environmental Justice working group is: How do Latino communities experience, cope, and contest the disparate impacts of pollution and extreme climate change events?
Our working group is composed of faculty and student fellows from the University of Illinois Chicago, the University of California Irvine, and the University of Texas Arlington. Specifically, our group reveals how Latino communities confront environmental injustices and adapt to extreme climate events. The four regions studied include Chicago, the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Puerto Rico, and migrant urban/rural communities throughout California. This project expands research on the intersection of Latino Studies, environmental justice, and climate change.
This project is supported by the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative, which ignites cross-institutional and cross-regional comparative research, training of doctoral students, and new scholarship in emerging areas of inquiry about Latina/os. Funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the initiative serves as the anchor of the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities, a consortium of R1 Hispanic Serving Institutions.
Please join us in this webinar to learn more about our projects. This event also marks the launch of a new website that will house detailed information about the climate and environmental justice projects conducted by the three universities participating in the Crossing Latinidades initiative.
Event Details:
Date: November 18th, 2024
Time: 12 PM to 1:30 PM Central/Chicago Time
Type: Virtual – Webinar
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PDF version of the flyer is available here.
To visit the Crossing Latinidades: Climate and Environmental Justice website, please click here.
