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Chris Jadallah – What Could Be More Innocent Than Planting Trees? Land-Based Pedagogies as a Site of Contestation
May 22 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center
The Center for Racial Justice is proud to present What Could Be More Innocent Than Planting Trees? Land-Based Pedagogies as a Site of Contestation with Chris Jadallah, Assistant Professor of Environmental Justice and Education at UC Los Angeles.
Land education, as both theory and pedagogy, works to unsettle the colonial dynamics that often remain quietly buried within land relations and learning environments. In this talk, Chris Jadallah will think with the geographies of Palestine to engage in a critical reading of two landscapes – pine forests and olive groves – to confront the ways in which settler colonial inheritances manifest across ecologies. From this reading, he will discuss how pedagogical experiences and curricular designs rooted in land, for example, tree planting activities that are pervasive environmental education, can serve to either reinscribe colonial dynamics or, alternatively, can be designed in ways that build transnational solidarities and prefigure decolonial futures.
Co-sponsored by Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES), Students for Justice in Palestine, Faculty for Justice in Palestine, Center for Cultural Studies, Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS), Anthropology Department, Sociology Department, Institute for Social Transformation, and People’s University.
Part of the year-long speaker series, Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement. For more information, visit the CRJ website: https://crjucsc.com/.