November 28 @12PM Dunton Tower 1811
Join us with Meera Karunananthan to discuss how market-based solutions for water conservation promoted in global climate talks reproduce power asymmetries and legitimize the ongoing dispossession of historically marginalized groups.
Speaker Bio: My academic work is shaped by many years of experience in environmental and social justice organizing. Building on relationships with feminist, indigenous and environmental justice movements, my current research investigates the processes that produce uneven distribution of water in the global South. As a feminist political ecologist, I am concerned with the ways in which market-based solutions to climate change and drought reproduce power asymmetries and legitimize the ongoing dispossession of historically marginalized groups. Specifically, I examine the racialized, class-based and gendered impacts of privatization, and financialization of urban water systems.