Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19

Edited by Tatiana Konrad

Published by: Michigan State University Press

Imprint: Michigan State University Press

Publishing Date: 2025-08-01

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Informed by transdisciplinary research in social and environmental justice, Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19 is a contribution to the scholarly discourse as well as a form of activism for environmental, climate, and health justice. Using race and Indigeneity as an analytical lens, the book explores how justice in the era of climate change and COVID-19 is envisioned, depicted, and achieved. With a focus largely on humans and environments, its explorations of (in)justice illustrate the wide health and safety gaps between individuals, communities, and even nations living under different environmental conditions. The volume also moves beyond the human toward justice for all beings. This book foregrounds voices from world communities, provides solutions to environmental and health crises, and advances environmental justice.

Contents

Naming the Crisis: Conceptualizing Environmental, Climate, and Health Injustices through Race and Indigeneity | Tatiana Konrad

Part 1. Air, Breath, and (In)Visibility of Environmental Racism

Atmoracism: Air and Precarities of Health, Environment, and Race | Tatiana Konrad

The Respiratory Politics of Air-Breath: India’s Epidemic Intensities | Bishnupriya Ghosh

Fueling Toxicity: Fast Fashion, Air Pollution, and Slow Violence | Savannah Schaufler

Part 2. Health, Sustainability, and Race

Environment and Health: The Impact of Historical Environment on Inuit Qanuinngitsiarutiksait in the Era of Anthropogenic Climate Change | Jeevan Stephanie Kaur Toor, Tagaaq Evaluardjuk-Palmer, and Josée G. Lavoie

COVID-19 and Socioenvironmental Sustainability: Grassroots Strategies of Autonomy and Healing among and between the Ngigua in San Marcos Tlacoyalco, Puebla-Mexico | María Cristina Manzano-Munguía, Guillermo López Varela, and María Sol Tiverovsky Scheines

The Stop Cop City Movement: Environmental Racism, Community Policing, and Necropolitics in Post–COVID-19 Atlanta | Juan M. Floyd-Thomas

Part 3. Decolonizing and Implementing Environmental Justice

Material Flows in Landscapes of Injustice | Nikiwe Solomon

Future Tense: The Role of Race, Risk, and Environmental Justice | Helen Bond

Decolonizing Environmental Justice: Centering Black and Indigenous Solutions to the Climate Crisis | Autumn Asher BlackDeer and Sierra Roach Coye

Conclusion: Decolonizing Environmental Justice Pedagogy | Tatiana Konrad

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Tatiana Konrad is the principal investigator of Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, and the editor of the Environment, Senses and Emotions book series at University of Exeter Press and the Environment, Health, and Well-being book series at Michigan State University Press. She has authored and edited several books, including Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis: The Industrial Revolution to the Present; Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism; and Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility.

“Tatiana Konrad’s highly engaging, powerfully written, and path-breaking volume, Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19, is a must-read for anyone interested in cutting-edge scholarship that links the topics of environmental, climate, health, and racial justice from a global perspective. Also crucial in this well-researched book are potent discussions from powerful emerging scholars and activists who seek to explore various manifestations of environmental injustices and their consequences from an international viewpoint.”—Eric R. Jackson, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of history and Black studies, Northern Kentucky University— -

“Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19, edited by Tatiana Konrad, is a timely exploration of the intersections of escalating racial, environmental, and health injustices in the era of climate change and the pandemic. A must-read for anyone invested in social justice.”—Cedric Taylor, associate professor of sociology at Central Michigan University and director of Nor Any Drop to Drink: Flint’s Water Crisis— -

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