Race, Nature, and the Environment

Katie Meehan is a geographer at King’s College London, Co-Director of King’s Water Centre, and Editor (Nature and Society) for the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. She has published widely on infrastructural geographies, household water insecurity, political ecology, and environmental justice. Her most recent book is Water: A Critical Introduction.

• Introduction: Unsettling Race, Nature, and Environment in Geography 1. Ecological Memory in the Biophysical Afterlife of Slavery 2. Unfixing Space: Toward Anti-Caste Philosophies of Nature 3. Toward “Total Freedom”: Black Ecologies of Land, Labor, and Livelihoods in the Mississippi Delta 4. Nature, Agriculture, and Black Space-Making in Serra dos Tapes, Brazil 5. Black Towns and (Legal) Marronage 6. Making the City of Lakes: Whiteness, Nature, and Urban Development in Minneapolis 7. Birds, Dogs, and Racism: Conflicts over Care in New York’s Central Park 8. Water Infrastructure as Intrusion: Race, Exclusion, and Nostalgic Futures in North Carolina 9. Regulating Improvement: Industrial Water Pollution, White Settler Authority, and Capitalist Reproduction in the St. Clair–Detroit River Corridor, 1945–1972 10. Articulating Indigenous Law as “Environmental Protection”? The Piikani Nation and the Oldman River Dam Environmental Assessment Review Process 11. On Swampification: Black Ecologies, Moral Geographies, and Racialized Swampland Destruction 12. At Home: Black Women’s Collective Claims to Environmentally Just Rental Housing 13. Toward a World Where We Can Breathe: Abolitionist Environmental Justice Praxis 14. A Pedagogy of Unbecoming for Geoscience Otherwise 15. Storytelling Earth and Body