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GA Panel Present: Reparative & Restorative Paradigms for Environmental Justice at Rutgers University-Newark
April 23, 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm EDT
Rutgers University Newark hosts the seminar Reparative and Restorative Paradigms for Environmental Justice, which examines local and global perspectives to the existential challenges posed by climate change. The seminar will consider how reparative and restorative approaches to environmental justice may offer more inclusive opportunities to re-imagine the terms of citizenship and self-government; ones that embed the interconnectedness of humans and their ecology in culture, politics, and laws. Recent conversations about reparations in the United States have drawn on both history and analyses of current economic, social, and political perspectives to propose reparative practices that range from monetary compensation to targeted policies that address racial disparities in wealth, housing discrimination, and education access, among others. At a wider scale, scholars like Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò have offered a constructivist view of reparations that proposes a historically informed project of distributive justice that serves a larger and broader world-making process. The project of reparations, therefore, has a forward-facing orientation that by necessity is anchored in the past.
The seminar runs Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 9:00am – 6:00pm
Newark Express, 54 Halsey Street, 2nd Floor, Room 213, Newark, NJ 07102
- Maya K. van Rossum, Founder of Green Amendments For The Generations, will be speaking in the afternoon on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2:00-3:20pm
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Accommodations: Please submit accommodation requests to sawyerseminar@newark.rutgers.edu by Friday, January 31, 2025.
More details, registration, and parking can be found HERE
