Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19

Tatiana Konrad is the principal investigator of Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, and the editor of the Environment, Senses and Emotions book series at University of Exeter Press and the Environment, Health, and Well-being book series at Michigan State University Press. She has authored and edited several books, including Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis: The Industrial Revolution to the Present; Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism;and Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility.

“Tatiana Konrad’s highly engaging, powerfully written, and path-breaking volume, Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19, is a must-read for anyone interested in cutting-edge scholarship that links the topics of environmental, climate, health, and racial justice from a global perspective. Also crucial in this well-researched book are potent discussions from powerful emerging scholars and activists who seek to explore various manifestations of environmental injustices and their consequences from an international viewpoint.”—Eric R. Jackson, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of history and Black studies, Northern Kentucky University