ES&P Lunchbag: Advancing Climate Justice in Troubled Times

While we live in troubled times in the United States and around the world, communities and movements continue to work toward climate justice and envision a world beyond the multiple crises of our era. This talk by Hannah Holleman briefly touches on some of the main drivers of social, political, and ecological crises today before turning to concrete examples of work to preserve previous movement gains and advance new goals in climate justice in the U.S. and internationally.
Hannah Holleman is Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Amherst College. She is author of Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism (Yale University Press). Her scholarly work also appears in outlets such as the American Journal of Sociology, Rural Sociology, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Cultural Dynamics, Social Research: An International Quarterly, and Monthly Review. She currently serves on the International Editorial Advisory Board for The Journal of Peasant Studies and as a member of the editorial board for the Journal of World-Systems Research. And she recently served as a scholar advisor at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.