February

26 February 2018

The EJ Series, part 14: ‘looking forward’ – critical environmental justice studies and the prison industrial complex

A particularly pronounced way in which prisons and environmental justice come together is through the methods that the state often employs to criminalize, control and incarcerate people who take measures to defend and ‘save the environment and nonhumans’.

19 February 2018

The EJ Series, part 13: settlers, miners, same thing.

Seán Kerins traces the history of development, environmental destruction and colonial injustice in the Southwest Gulf Of Carpentaria, Northern Territory.

13 February 2018

Great Barrier Reef stories, Chapter 3: reef music

What does the Great Barrier Reef sound like? Dr Killian Quigley reflects on different ways to describe the Reef’s nonvisual particularities in order to make us more likely to relate viscerally to the Reef and perhaps to care more for it.

12 February 2018

The EJ series, part 12: lock the gate, place and environmental justice.

George Woods from the Lock the Gate Alliance shares the story of her place and the work being done by Lock the Gate on environmental justice. This article is based on a presentation by George Woods on a panel entitled ‘Environmental Justice and Place’ at the Environmental Justice 2017: Looking Back, Looking Forward Conference, University of Sydney, 6-8 November 2017.