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Seminar: 08-27-GS-4 Environmental Justice: Feminist and Decolonial Perspectives - Details

Seminar: 08-27-GS-4 Environmental Justice: Feminist and Decolonial Perspectives - Details

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Course name Seminar: 08-27-GS-4 Environmental Justice: Feminist and Decolonial Perspectives
Subtitle Umweltgerechtigkeit: Feministische und dekoloniale Perspektiven
Course number 08-27-GS-4
Semester WiSe 2025/2026
Current number of participants 16
expected number of participants 30
Home institute Geographie
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
Next date Friday, 16.01.2026 10:15 - 15:30, Room: GW2 B3009 (Großer Studierraum)
Type/Form
Participants "General Studies (all faculties / Freigabe für alle FB)".
By the end of the course, the students will have learned to:
o Identify and define instances of environmental injustice, understanding the multi-scalar lens that shape the struggles within systems of inequality.
o Critically engage with key concepts in environmental justice such as intersectionality, scale, (state) power, resistance and indispensability.
o Reflect on the role of social movements in challenging environmental injustice and articulating alternative futures, with attention to opportunities and limitations of state-centered reform approaches.
o Carry out transect walks to asses how urban nature is distributed, accessed, and maintained in the city of Bremen, across different neighborhoods and demographics.
o Express their understanding critically and creatively through visual poster work and reflective writing exercises.
o Reflect and share feedback on colleagues’ poster presentations.
o Connect the topics within environmental justice to their own lives, by situating themselves withing the current systems of power, and identify concrete ways in which they might contribute to environmental and social transformation.
Pre-requisites Good English comprehension.
Performance record o Preparation of sessions
o Poster presentations (Assessment)
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja
ECTS points 3

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This block seminar is a first approach to the topic of Environmental Justice. We explore the complex intersections of environmental degradation, social inequality, and power and resistance. Using a mix of lectures, films, transect walks, podcasts, collaborative mapping, guest speakers, and hands-on activities, we engage with the foundational theory of environmental justice to learn how environmental harm disproportionately affects marginalized communities.
We explore case studies, historical and current, local and global: using the Environmental Justice Atlas, students can choose a case study of their interest to present at the end of the class. During the course, we also take a closer look at environmental justice in Bremen: we observe the design of green spaces in Bremen’s neighborhoods, as well as learning about resistance movements in Germany and beyond. Through group discussions, creative work and reflective writing, students are encouraged to develop a nuanced understanding of environmental justices, not only as a framework to action but also as an invitation to action. The course culminates in poster presentations of the selected case studies, connecting global struggles with our own positions and possibilities for co-resistance.

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