Sustaining (in)Justice

S1E10: Navigating Social Positionality

What are social positionalities? And, how do we navigate positionalities counter-hegemonically? Ame and Khampha reflect on some of their own intersecting identities and positionalities in research and the workplace. Listeners are also encouraged to reflect on the role of positionalities in their lives.

S1E9: Corporate Sustainability

What is the role of corporations in today’s sustainability transition? In this conversation with Lukas, we interrogate corporate sustainability. Ultimately, we engage the question: what is being sustained as a result of corporate sustainability initiatives?

S1E8: Collectively Responding to Urbanization

Growth of many kinds is often identified as a sustainability issue to be addressed. In this conversation, we discuss what it means to collectively respond to urban growth. Urbanization poses many challenges including increasing pressures on rural farmers in India. Increasing pressures of urbanization require decisions be made about about groundwater usage.

S1E7: Air Quality Particularly Matters

Industrialization has forced the field of sustainability to think about the impact of toxic Particulate Matter (PM) on air quality. This conversation navigates air quality and justice implications of air monitoring policies in the United States.

S1E6: Power and Privilege in Food Systems and Religion

By now listeners are used to podcast guest’s introducing themselves with relevant sociopolitical positionalities. In this discussion with Taína, we navigate the relevance and significance of thinking about positionality and identity as relates to sustainability. Topics of food systems and religion guided how we discuss the role of sociopolitical power, privilege, identity, and positionality.

S1E5: Ripples of Economic Water Policy

Issues of water scarcity are central to sustainability concerns. Questions on how water incentives and water allocation policies might address scarcity problems are engaged in this discussion on water economics with Katie.

S1E4: Navigating (in)Justice Amid Urban Heat

Today's conversation navigates meanings of sustainability amid rising temperatures and rapid urban development. This discussion identifies how certain communities are exposed to heat stress more than others. Climate adaptation and mitigation responses are compared to urban heat.

S1E3: The Resiliency of Settler Colonialism in Sustainability Education

Resiliency is a crucial principle to many sustainability efforts, but when is resilience harmful? In a conversation introducing ideas of settler colonialism in sustainability education Haven and Khampha discuss how settler colonial oppression is a resilient and ongoing process.

S1E2: Engaging complexity, but how?

In conversation with Jake Swanson, a Project Manager and Commissioner, complexity is introduced as a key concept in processes addressing entangled sustainability and justice issues.

S1E1: Welcome to Sustaining (in)Justice

In an interview led by Norah Jerinic-Brodeur, undergraduate contributor to the podcast, listeners will learn more about host and creator of Sustaining (in)Justice, Khampha, and what the Sustaining (in)Justice podcast is about.