This EJ/CJ Digital Hub supports and publicizes the work of our constituent public scholars, each situated by their own thematic research areas.
In addition to research conducted by the constituent projects and scholars, our cluster supports speakers, conferences and research endeavors organized by colleagues here on campus and with colleagues throughout the University of California system and around the world.
ENVIRONMENTAL CRITICISM & CONTEMPORARY MEDIA
Alenda Chang, Department of Film & Media Studies
WIREFRAME STUDIO – Home of Green Games and the cyborg VJ Um Amel at UC Santa Barbara
Leading an innovative form of humanities-based inquiry that explores digital media through critically and theoretically informed collaborative design practices, UCSB Film and Media Studies Professors Laila Shereen Sakr and Alenda Chang established Wireframe Studio in 2017.
CLIMATE JUSTICE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
John Foran, Departments of Sociology & Environmental Studies
Reimagining Radical Climate Justice, in Paul Wapner and Hilal Elver, eds. Reimagining Climate Change (Routledge 2016).
The First Draft of History: Thirty-Four of the Best Pieces on the Paris Agreement, January 4, 2016 (pdf)
ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY, INFRASTRUCTURE & ADAPTATION, CLIMATE JUSTICE STUDIES
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES
Ken Hiltner, Departments of English and Environmental Studies
Literature and the Environment
Nearly Carbon Neutral Conferences
Visit Ken Hiltner’s UC Climate Champion page at the UC Office of the President (UCOP)
CRITICAL INDIGENOUS STUDIES, GENDER STUDIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
ann-elise lewallen, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
New Book, The Fabric of Indigeneity: Ainu Identity and Gender in Settler Colonial Japan (UNMP and SAR, 2016)
Energy Justice, People of Asia Say No to Nuclear Power (English translation forthcoming)
CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
David Pellow, Department of Environmental Studies
Director, Global Environmental Justice Project
New Report: The Green New Deal: How Far We’ve Come (2021)
Recent Book: What is Critical Environmentalism? (Polity, 2018)
Report on Toxic Prisons: Exposing Deliberate Indifference: The Struggle for Social and Environmental Justice In America’s Prison’s, Jails, and Concentration Camps (2017)
INFRASTRUCTURAL INEQUALITIES, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, CRITICAL RACE STUDIES
Elana Faye Resnick
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCSB
Director, Infrastructure Inequalities Research Group (IIRG), UCSB
CRITICAL THEORY, MEDIA STUDIES, EMERGENT GLOBAL CLIMATE GOVERNANCE
Richard Widick, Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies
Director, International Institute of Climate Action & Theory
Filmmaker, Metroglobe Productions
This just in! — Global Ethnographic Filmmaking Project:
The Edmund Pettus Bridge to Climate Justice (2021, 2hrs, 32 min):
