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There is a history in Nova Scotia of rendering mute the complex and specific ways in which race and class get written into environmental policies that dictate where and how polluting industries and other environmental harms are located. Environmental decision-making and local land-use planning operate at the intersection of science, economics, politics, and special interests in ways that put the health and socio-economic well-being of communities of colour at risk. Therefore, there is a need to look at the interrelationship between white settler colonialism, race, class, power, environment, vulnerability, and health.

In this keynote lecture Dr. Waldron will discuss the following:

• How racial meanings become embedded in decisions about where polluting industries and other environmental threats are located;
• How low income,  institutional and systemic racism, and a lack of political power and representation contribute to and sustain environmental racism;
  
• How environmental racism reflects the ways in which the State has governed subjects differently based on hierarchies of race, class, income, and gender;How environmental racism is shaped by and shaping interactive relations of coloniality;
• How environmental racism impacts health and socio-economic well-being in Mi’kmaw and African Nova Scotian communities; and
• How alliances and solidarities can be fostered among differently positioned people of colour, Indigenous peoples, and white allies to build the necessary political power to address environmental racism in this province.

Date:  Monday, February 1^st, 2016

Time:   7:00 PM

Location:        Auditorium SCHW 110, Schwartz School of Business, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish

Reception to follow

For more information, please see poster!