Course Glossary

This class builds on key concepts in environmental racism and justice.

The Climates of Resistance “Theory at a Glance” series provides one-page overviews of themes in critical race and justice theory.

• White as Default

• Layers of Racism

• Colonisation

• False Dichotomies

• Agency and Power

Over the semester, we will craft definitions of the terms below as a class. You can click on any phrase to learn more about its use in scholarship and practice.

• anthropocentrism

• anti-racism

• BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour)

• colonisation

• environmental justice

• environmental racism

• human-nature dichotomy

• intersectionality

• institutional racism

• male as norm

• marginalisation

• microaggression (see also this video on ‘Microaggressions in the Classroom’)

• NIMBY

• reference category

• social construction of race

• systemic racism (see also this article)

• oppression

• white as default

• white supremacy