We are pleased to share our collection of teaching interviews to inform educators and researchers about approaches to teaching racialized ecologies across diverse courses.
Course: "Studying Culture: A Critical Introduction"
Department: English and Cultural Studies
Dr. Susie O'Brien: "A key concern is how we think about nature and culture, recognizing that we inhabit a physical world alongside other humans and non-humans, and that our cultural ways of understanding and struggling over how to live in that world are always political." Read the full interview.
Course: “Environmental Justice and Gender” Department: Gender and Women’s Studies Dr. Anita Girvan: “[T]he course centres complexity and complicity, asking how we are complicit in these systems and how we might still practice hope. . . . Cynicism and apathy, we can’t do that, because it’s like throwing your hands up and saying the state of the world is okay as it is.” Read the full interview.