Global Grand Challenges mini-conference
Scholars from France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Arizona will present at a mini- conference on Environmental Justice and Cultural Resistance in Africa and Polynesia. The conference centers on research supported by a collaborative Global Grand Challenges grant.
The most important contribution this research makes is to show how culture operates and the vital role cultural resistance plays in moving forward differently. As our environment is increasingly endangered, literature and popular culture are playing a vital role in raising awareness and shifting the terms of the debate.
Many of the environmental crises in Africa today are not of their own making, most derive from extraverted economies of colonial extraction and climate change due to industrial pollution elsewhere. Our team has explored how African actors resist environmental injustice through relevant and compelling forms of cultural expression.
