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Robert Figueroa |
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| Is There
a Latino/a Environmentalism? |
Friday, 7:30 p.m., February 1,
2002 in EESAT 130
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Questions regarding the ways in which cultural values and environmental values intersect have long been a part of environmental philosophy. The emergence of the environmental justice movement has given this intersection a new centrality for sophisticated study. Figueroa presents a philosophical exploration of Latino/a environmental struggles that continue to shape the theoretical discourse of environmental justice. He first examines what philosophical controversies might emerge from a concept of Latino/a Environmentalism. He then goes on to explain that such a concept is both embedded in an environmental justice perspective and contributes to a variety of projects in environmental philosophy. He gives particular attention to ways in which the study of the title question enhances the meanings of environmental identity, environmental heritage, and the bivalence of environmental justice. |
| Figueroa (Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder) is visiting assistant professor of the philosophy and religion department at Colgate University, where he mainly teaches social and practical ethics, environmental ethics, and environmental justice. His work has been published in several books, such as The Blackwell Companion to Environmental Philosophy; Faces of Environmental Racism: Issues in Global Justice (2nd ed), and The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy. Figueroa's writings span a range of environmental justice studies including Latino/a issues, world heritage policy, justice and race theory, global politics, and environmental pedagogy. Current work includes his book Whose Environment? Which Justice?: Social Philosophy and Environmental Justice, and a co-edited book on the philosophy of science, technology, and diversity. |
| The lecture is free and open to the public. | For special accommodation, contact
us at 565-2266 or philosophy@unt.edu |
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CEP - PHIL - UNT - February 2, 2002 |
