Find out how your research links to spatial justice in frontier communities facing rapid climate change.
Date: 24 September 2024
Time: 13:00 – 14:30
Location: Lumen 1, Wageningen Campus
This symposium is in person only, no registration required.
On Tuesday September 24th 2024, Dr. Jennifer Veilleux from the Cultural Geography Group (GEO) will host a symposium to engage with colleagues about her role in the AMW (Earth and Environmental Sciences) Sector Plan theme on spatial challenges. She will present her proposed research project designs and related scholarship, proposed coproduction methods, as well as facilitate two participatory exercises related to climate change, spatial justice and your own research.
About the speaker: Jennifer explores spatial dynamics of climate-change-manifested changes to water and intersectional challenges at scale. This especially concerns environmental impacts, local community organizing, community relationality to place, Indigenous Leadership, the role of women, as well as the role of the State, science, and engineering technologies. Her current and ongoing research designs explore;
- localized impacts of national and international decision making,
- art as both an object of and a tool for communication,
- questions of sovereignty and territoriality,
- how power and agency are leveraged in environmental justice struggles,
- legitimacy of globally dominant narratives and value systems,
- and resulting alterations over time and space to rivers and coastlines, and related multi-species communities.
Jennifer works to decolonize dominant narratives by coproducing research that directly addresses settler colonial legacies. She approaches climate change to include recognition of inequities and privilege related to identity and access, agency and erasure, reflexivity, and how and when this matters to frontline communities engaged in organizing survival strategies in rapidly changing climate realities. More about Jennifer Veilleux.
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