Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Brown University/Environmental Injustice and Justice in African History (Spring 2024)

Most understandings of environmental justice concern modern industrial pollution and its regulation, but environment and power—both oppressive and liberatory—have been tightly intertwined throughout world history, including in Africa. This course concerns the African past from ancient to contemporary times through the lenses of environmental history, social history, and political ecology. We use them to identify environmental ramifications of hierarchies and efforts to mitigate them through more-than-human connections. As course material approaches the present, we develop a critique of structural inequality and consider movements to achieve justice in environmental realms. No previous knowledge of African studies is expected.