GRSJ 200: Gender & Environmental Justice

Instructor: Dr. Litsa Chatzivasileiou


An interdisciplinary and cross-cultural overview of contemporary environmental issues, as they relate to gender equality and social justice challenges and initiatives that respond to ecological crises. Recommended prerequisite: GRSJ 101.

An intersectional overview of environmental issues as they relate to settler colonialism, imperialism, neolibaralism and the refugee crisis intertwined with the climate crisis and hopeful decolonial alternatives based on Indigenous teachings on sound ecology, Indigenous land back movements, deep ecology and the degrowth movement.