Please join Social Theory for a talk from Dr. David Pellow, Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Abstract: "How do environmental and climate justice advocates mobilize to pursue their goals in moments when much of the political establishment is openly hostile to those ends? In this presentation I explore several cases where grassroots activists and organizations worked to create collective practices and infrastructures aimed at achieving measures of environmental and climate justice for marginalized communities, despite opposition and/or neglect from elected officials and government agencies. Finally, I consider what lessons these struggles offer for a range of social movements during the current moment of intensified state repression in the U.S."