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"you couldn't get away from it": entanglements of incarceration and climate change

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 01:32:42 +0000

"you couldn't get away from it": entanglements of incarceration and climate change Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 12/05/2022 - 18:32

"you couldn't get away from it": entanglements of incarceration and climate change

December 2022

Engineering Center

South Lobby

University of Colorado Boulder

Climate change disproportionately burdens the most vulnerable segments of our society, putting those with the fewest resources at greatest risk. Mass incarceration does the same, destabilizing families and communities, and derailing lives. You may be well aware of this – but have you considered the ways that these two phenomena are entangled?

This installation introduces visitors to the ways that incarceration and climate change intersect in the United States, with each amplifying the harms inflicted by the other. Scholars, activists, and the general public are only just beginning to contend with the urgent implications of these intersections and the feedback loops they create.

If you visit this exhibit, we ask you to keep these things in mind:

+ When we talk about incarcerated people, we are talking about people---human beings with lives, hopes, feelings, and dignity.

+ The U.S. criminal justice system is full of inequity, injustice, and systemic racism. People of color and people from impoverished backgrounds are much more likely to be incarcerated and be given harsher sentences than their white and/or wealthy peers.

+ Mass incarceration touches us all, in ways you may not have considered. We all have a role to play in untangling this vicious cycle.

This project is sponsored by:

The Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change (C3BC),

the Center for Community Engaged Design and Research (CEDaR)

and in collaboration with:

the Resilient Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RISE) Interdisciplinary Research Theme

and the Climate Incarceration Research Collective (CIRCol)

exhibit bibliography

Alexander, M. (2010). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press.

Bonds, A. (2019). “Race and Ethnicity I: Property, Race, and the Carceral State.” Progress in Human Geography 43 (3): 574-83.

Cacho, L. M. (2012) Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected. New York University Press.

Camp, J. T. (2016). Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State. University of California Press.

Cassidy, K., Griffin, P., & Wray, F. (2020). Labour, carcerality and punishment: ‘Less-than-human’ labour landscapes. Progress in Human Geography, 44(6), 1081-1102.

Cowan, K. N., Peterson, M., LeMasters, K., & Brinkley-Rubinstein, L. (2022). Overlapping Crises: Climate Disaster Susceptibility and Incarceration. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(12), 7431. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127431

Davis, A. Y. (2003). Are Prisons Obsolete? Seven Stories Press.

Foucault, M. (1975). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (A. Sheridan, Trans.). Random House, Inc.

Gilmore, R. W. (2022). Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation. Verso.

Gilmore, R. W. (2007). Golden gulag: Prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizing California. University of California Press.

Glade, S., Niles, S., Roudbari, S., Pezzullo, P. C., Dashti, S., Liel, A. B., & Miller, S. L. (2022). Disaster resilience and sustainability of incarceration infrastructures: A review of the literature. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 80, 103190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103190

Golembeski, C. A., Dong, K., & Irfan, A. (2021). Carceral and Climate Crises and Health Inequities: A Call for Greater Transparency, Accountability, and Human Rights Protections. World Medical & Health Policy, 13(1), 69–96. https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.382

Gribble, E. C., & Pellow, D. N. (2022). Climate Change and Incarcerated Populations: Confronting Environmental and Climate Injustices Behind Bars. Fordham Urban Law Journal, 49(2). https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2867&context=ulj

Kaba, M. (2021). We Do This ‘til We Free Us: Abolitionist organizing and transforming justice. Haymarket Books.

Levenson, L. L. (2022). Climate Change and the Threat to U.S. Jails and Prisons. Villanova Environmental Law Journal, 33(2). https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1457&context=elj

Loyd, J. M., Mitchelson, M. L., & Burridge, A. (Eds.). (2012). Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis. University of Georgia Press.

McCauley, E., Eckstrand, K., Desta, B., Bouvier, B., Brockmann, B., & Brinkley-Rubinstein, L. (2018). Exploring Healthcare Experiences for Incarcerated Individuals Who Identify as Transgender in a Southern Jail. Transgender Health, 3(1), 34–41. https://doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2017.0046

McGee, J. A., Greiner, P. T., & Appleton, C. (2021). Locked into Emissions: How Mass Incarceration Contributes to Climate Change. Social Currents, 8(4), 326–340. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329496520974006

Motanya, N. C., & Valera, P. (2016). Climate Change and Its Impact on the Incarcerated Population: A Descriptive Review. Social Work in Public Health, 31(5), 348–357. https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2015.1137513

National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. (2007). Abandoned and abused: Prisoners in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Race & Class, 49(1), 81–92. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396807080069

Noonan, M. (2016). Mortality in State Prisons, 2001-2014—Statistical Tables (p. 22). U.S. Department of Justice: Bureau of Justice Statistics. https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/msp0114st.pdf

Nowakowski, K. (2013). Landscapes of Toxic Exclusion: Inmate Labour and Electronics Recycling in the United States. In Moran, D., Gill, N., and Conlon, D. (Eds.) Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention. Ashgate.

Pellow, D. N. (2021). Struggles for Environmental Justice in US Prisons and Jails. Antipode, 53(1), 56–73. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12569

Pellow, D. N., Austin, M. A., Le, M., McAlpine, S., & Roudebush, A. (2017). Exposing Deliberate Indifference: The Struggle for Social and Environmental Justice in America’s Prisons, Jails, and Concentration Camps. The Prison Environmental Justice Project. https://gejp.es.ucsb.edu/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.envs.d7_gejp-2/files/sitefiles/publication/Exposing%20deliberate%20indifference%20.pdf

Pellow, D. N., Lake, F. R., Wilson, C. A., & Baker, E. J. (2020). Environmental Justice Struggles in Prisons and Jails Around the World: The 2020 Annual Report of the Prison Environmental Justice Project. The Prison Environmental Justice Project. https://gejp.es.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/sitefiles/publication/Prison%20EJ%20Project%202020%20Report-compressed.pdf

Pellow, D. N., Vazin, J., Ashby, H., Austin, M. A., Kime, S., & Mcalpine, S. (2018). Environmental Injustice Behind Bars: Toxic Imprisonment in America. The Prison Environmental Justice Project. https://gejp.es.ucsb.edu/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.envs.d7_gejp-2/files/sitefiles/publication/PEJP%20Annual%20Report%202018.pdf

Pellow, D., Vazin, J., Johnson, K., & Austin, M. (2019). Capitalism in Practice: Free Market Influence on Environmental Injustice in America’s Prisons. The Prison Environmental Justice Project. https://gejp.es.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/sitefiles/publication/GEJP%20Annual%20Report%202019.pdf

Prins, S. J., & Story, B. (2020). Connecting the Dots Between Mass Incarceration, Health Inequity, and Climate Change. American Journal of Public Health, 110(51), 535–536. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305470

Purdum, C., Henry, F., Rucker, S., Williams, D. A., Thomas, R., Dixon, B., & Jacobs, F. (2021). No Justice, No Resilience: Prison Abolition As Disaster Mitigation in an Era of Climate Change. Environmental Justice, 14(6), 418–425. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2021.0020

Purdum, J. C., & Meyer, M. A. (2020). Prisoner Labor Throughout the Life Cycle of Disasters. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 11(3), 296–319. https://doi.org/10.1002/rhc3.12191

Savilonis, M. A. (2013). Prisons and disasters [Northeastern University]. https://doi.org/10.17760/d20004879

Shabazz, R. (2015). Spatializing blackness: Architectures of confinement and black masculinity in Chicago. University of Illinois Press.

Skarha, J., Dominick, A., Spangler, K., Dosa, D., Rich, J. D., Savitz, D. A., & Zanobetti, A. (2022). Provision of Air Conditioning and Heat-Related Mortality in Texas Prisons. JAMA Network Open, 5(11), e2239849. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.39849

Skarha, J., Peterson, M., Rich, J. D., & Dosa, D. (2020). An Overlooked Crisis: Extreme Temperature Exposures in Incarceration Settings. American Journal of Public Health, 110(S1), S41–S42. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305453

Story, B. (2019) Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America. University of Minnesota Press.

Veit, J. (2018). How Anthropogenic Climate Change Exacerbates Vulnerability in Prison Communities: A Critical Environmental Justice Analysis [Humboldt State University]. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1266&context=etd

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#WomAn, Life, Freedom Context, Symbolism, and Solidarity in the Iranian Women’s Revolution

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 03:57:53 +0000

#WomAn, Life, Freedom Context, Symbolism, and Solidarity in the Iranian Women’s Revolution Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/17/2022 - 21:57

Shawhin Roudbari

The death of Jina Mahsa Amini on September 16 has sparked historic demonstrations centered on women’s socio-political rights, human rights, and regime change in Iran. Over the past month, tens of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets across the country to protest the Iranian government’s treatment of girls and women. The women-led protests have shaken Iranian society and the government has brutally responded with tear gas, bullets, kidnappings, arrests, and internet blackouts. Despite the government’s violent crackdown, protests have only widened with workers in the oil and energy sector staging strikes in solidarity. This movement has the potential to affect struggles for women’s rights and human rights globally.

The panel will be moderated by A. Marie Ranjbar (Assistant Professor in Women and Gender Studies) with reflections by: Shideh Dashti (Associate Professor in Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering); Nabil Echchaibi (Associate Professor in Media Studies); Nader Hashemi (Associate Professor in International Studies, Denver University); Poupeh Missaghi (Assistant Professor in Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Denver University); Samira Rajabi (Assistant Professor in Media Studies); Shawhin Roudbari (Assistant Professor in Environmental Design), & Neda Shaban (PhD Student in Geography).

Please join us for a public discussion of the historical context, symbolism, and impacts of women’s rights protests. This is an opportunity to share in solidarity, connect, learn, hold community, and brainstorm actions.

Thursday
October 20, 2022
5-6:30 pm
CASE E422

University of Colorado Boulder
Refreshments served
cosponsored by
Women and Gender Studies (WGST)
Community Engaged Design and Research (CEDaR)
Center for Media, Religion,and Culture (CMRC)Center for Asian Studies (CAS)
Poster art by Yael Hofri and shared as a design commons project for this movement

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Colombia Abroad Studio 2022

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 14:39:27 +0000

Colombia Abroad Studio 2022 Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 07/08/2022 - 08:39

Jota Samper

This week after two years of being unable to do it because of the pandemic, we are starting out the 2022 Global Seminar Program.

This year students from the Environmental Design University of Colorado Boulder traveled to Medellín to work alongside students from the Universidad de San Buenaventura Medellín on creating projects that improve the lives of the community from #Carpinelo2.

Our first week was filled with new experiences, getting to know the city, some of the most interesting projects it has, and also the most important part, getting to know the community of #Carpinelo2.

We are very excited to be working alongside Corporación Convivamos, #CEDaR, �� Boulder Outreach and Engagement, �� Boulder Education Abroad, and Universidad de San Buenaventura Medellín on this project.

Finally, Thank you to instructors Jota Samper Carlos Alberto Marin Herrera Valeria Henao for coordinating and organizing everything.

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Antiracism in action: participatory mapping of cultural resources with Boulder’s BIPOC community

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 21:11:30 +0000

Antiracism in action: participatory mapping of cultural resources with Boulder’s BIPOC community Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 04/22/2022 - 15:11

How can we provide more just and equitable cultural resources in our community? In this project, Community Engagement, Design and Research (CEDaR) teams up with the Antiracism in the Arts Initiative (AAI) to mentor undergraduate research assistants in a dynamic participatory antiracist cultural mapping exercise. Undergraduate researchers will work with AAI and CEDaR faculty and staff to design, develop, and facilitate the participation of community members in mapping the kinds of cultural and arts resources they seek access and inclusion with as well as their reflections on the ways that such resources are inequitably distributed or even exclusive. This work will develop theoretical and methodological grounding in antiracist design and planning literature. We seek interdisciplinary, critical, and engaged undergraduate researchers for work on this project during the spring, summer, and potentially fall of 2022.

Research assistantship

Research assistants (RA) participate in research design, data collection, analysis, writing, and presenting. As a CEDaR RA, you will gain mentorship in theories and methods of community-engaged design, while tackling social and environmental issues.

Contact Nathan Paul Jones, Internship Director. nathan.p.jones@colorado.edu

This research project is sponsored by an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant from the Office of undergraduate education

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Thursday
October 20, 2022
5-6:30 pm
CASE E422