Week 2: Human Rights and Environmental Rights
Human Rights and Environmental Rights
In what ways do environmental rights intersect with the rights of indigenous people in Latin America and Afro-Latin Americans? How do environmental rights intersect with gender rights?
What role have Latin American citizens had in innovating on environmental rights?
How have Latin Americans engaged with existing national and international rights frameworks?
Assess the religious responses to environmental concerns in the region.
Primary Sources:
Core Readings:
Choose 2 of the following readings:
Leonardo Boff. Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor. Orbis Books, 1997. and/ or Leonardo Boff, "The Ethic of Care" in , edited by Peter Blaze Corcoran, et al., University of Georgia Press, 2008.
Alex Latta and Hannah Wittman, 鈥淐itizens, Society and Nature Sites of Inquiry, Points of Departure鈥� in Latta, Alex, and Hannah Wittman, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012.
Guillermo Kerber " in Evan Berry and Robert Albro (eds.) Environment Religion and Social Conflict in Contemporary Latin America. London: Routeledge, 2018.
Escobar, Arturo. , Duke University Press, 2008. (Introduction)
Sharlene Morlett, "". Antipode. 48:2, 2016. p. 412
Seminar Activity:
Watch the trailer for , presented by the actor and producer, Gael Garc铆a Bernal and the writer and linguist Y谩snaya 脕guilar.
What can it tell us about the relationship between human rights and environmental rights? How it it useful for the historian of environmental history and human rights? How effective is the narrative? How does it appeal to the audience?
Thinking about Public History:
TW: This interview contains a discussion on gendered violence.
Listen to the interview with the journalist, Nina Lakhani talking about her book about and environmentalist. How do race, gender and the protection of the environment intersect?
Further Readings:
Bulletin of Latin American Research. Special issue on Covid 19. 39:1, Dec 2020.
Acosta, Alberto, and Mateo Mart铆nez Abarca. 鈥淏UEN VIVIR: AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE FROM THE PEOPLES OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH TO THE CRISIS OF CAPITALIST MODERNITY.鈥� The Climate Crisis: South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives, edited by Vishwas Satgar, Wits University Press, 2018, pp. 131–47
Latta, Alex, and Hannah Wittman, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012.
Dore, Elizabeth. 鈥淓nvironment and Society: Long-Term Trends in Latin American Mining.鈥� Environment and History 6, no. 1 (Feb., 2000): 1–29.
Margaret E. Keck, and Kathryn Sikkink. Cornell University Press, 1998. (Chapter 4).
Shawn William Miller,
Guillermo Castro Herrera. 鈥溾�� Environment and History 3, no. 1 (Feb., 1997): 1–18.
Kristina Tiedje in Evan Berry and Robert Albro (eds.) London: Routeledge, 2018.
Newby, H. (1996) 鈥楥itizenship in a Green World: Global Commons and Human Stewardship,鈥� in M. Bulmer and A. M. Rees (eds), Citizenship Today: The Contemporary Relevance of T.H. Marshall. London: UCL Press, pp. 209–221. (See Chapter Scan)
Wittman, H. (2009) 鈥楻eframing Agrarian Citizenship: Land, Life and Power in Brazil,鈥� Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 120–130.
Whitman H. (2010) 鈥楢grarian Reform and the Environment: Fostering Ecological Citizenship in Mato Grosso, Brazil,鈥� Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 281– 298.
Valencia S谩is, A. (2005) 鈥楪lobalisation, Cosmopolitanism and Ecological Citizenship,鈥� Environmental Politics, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 163–178.
Walker, D., et al. (2007) 鈥榃hen Participation Meets Empowerment: The WWF and the Politics of Invitation in the Chimalapas, Mexico,鈥� Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 97, No. 2, pp. 423–444.
Menegat, R. (2002) 鈥楶articipatory Democracy and Sustainable Development: Integrated Urban Environmental Management in Porto Alegre, Brazil,鈥� Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 181-206.
Latta, P. A. (2007) 鈥楥itizenship and the Politics of Nature: The Case of Chile鈥檚 Alto B铆o B铆o,鈥� Citizenship Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 229–246.
Latta P.a (2007) 鈥楲ocating Democratic Politics in Ecological Citizenship,鈥� Environmental Politics, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 377–393.
Jelin, Elizabeth. 鈥楾owards a Global Environmental Citizenship,鈥� Citizenship Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2000, pp. 47–62.
Hochstetler, K., and Keck, M. E. Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
James Holston, Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
David V. Carruthers, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.
Jose Esteban Castro, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Some films and podcasts:
Nina Lakhani talks about her book about the murder of an environmentalist.