POLI 364 - Reparations, Justice, and the Environment

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

This seminar engages with the use of reparations as a legal remedy for climate and environmental harm. Following Farhana Sultana’s analysis of climate coloniality, the seminar examines how climate injustice can be addressed through reparations. The course explores the intersection of these issues based on the works of Olufemi O Taiwo, Farhana Sultana, Amitav Ghosh, and Kasia Paprocki among others on climate justice and reparations. The seminar uses these key texts, court cases, and conversations with climate negotiators and youth climate activists to conceptualize the interrelationships between climate injustice and the legal claim for reparations. The course examines how reparations in law are understood and what possibilities it holds for remedying environmental and climate injustice with a focus on vulnerable geographies of the global south. Arpitha Kodiveri.

Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.

One 2-hour period.

Course Format: CLS