Jill Lindsey Harrison has expertise in environmental justice, environmental politics, agriculture and food politics, and immigration politics. Her research contributes unique insights into the cultural relations and political economic processes that disproportionately situate members of racially marginalized, Indigenous, and working-class communities in dangerous spaces and precarious conditions that contribute to inequalities in life opportunity, illness, and death. She also identifies ways the state, social movements, and other institutions can more effectively redress those inequalities. She has done so through various cases of environmental and workplace inequality in the contemporary United States.
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environmental politics, environmental justice, politics of agriculture and food, political theories of justice
COMM 7118 - Foundations of Environmental Justice
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Spring 2023
Examines environmental justice movements, policies, institutions, objectives, and scholarship. Identifies factors that contribute to environmental inequality, and efforts to reduce it. Formerly offered as a special topics course. Same as GEOG 7118, ENVS 7118 and PSCI 7118.
ENVS 7118 - Foundations of Environmental Justice
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Spring 2023
Examines environmental justice movements, policies, institutions, objectives, and scholarship. Identifies factors that contribute to environmental inequality, and efforts to reduce it. Formerly offered as a special topics course. Same as COMM 7118, GEOG 7118 and PSCI 7118.
GEOG 3782 - Environmentalism, Race, and Justice
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Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Examines spatial inequalities in environmental problems and their relationships to environmentalism and racism. Examines the implications for human health, well-being, and sense of place. Identifies factors that contribute to environmental inequalities, with particular attention to environmentalism and racism. Explores efforts to reduce environmental inequality, including by social movements, researchers, students, journalists, political leaders, and government agencies. Introduces students to research methods for documenting and analyzing environmental inequality. Focuses geographically on the United States. Formerly offered as a special topics course. Recommended prerequisite: GEOG 1972.
GEOG 4772 - The Geography of Food and Agriculture
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Course examines geographies of food systems through consideration of food as both a commodity and as culture. Topics covered include the political economy of global food systems, alternative food movements, and environmental factors, as well as interactions between food and gender, race, class, and culture. Previously offered as as a special topics course. Recommended prerequisites: GEOG 1972 or GEOG 1982 or GEOG 2092.
GEOG 7118 - Foundations of Environmental Justice
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Spring 2023
Examines environmental justice movements, policies, institutions, objectives, and scholarship. Identifies factors that contribute to environmental inequality, and efforts to reduce it. Formerly offered as a special topics course. Same as COMM 7118, ENVS 7118 and PSCI 7118.
PSCI 7118 - Foundations of Environmental Justice
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Spring 2023
Examines environmental justice movements, policies, institutions, objectives, and scholarship. Identifies factors that contribute to environmental inequality, and efforts to reduce it. Formerly offered as a special topics course. Same as COMM 7118, ENVS 7118 and GEOG 7118.
SOCY 2077 - Environment and Society
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Spring 2021
Examines interactions between societies and their natural and built environments through the lens of inequality. Describes how environmental problems vary along, are shaped by, and exacerbate disparities along lines of race, socioeconomic status, and other forms of social status. Also examines collective efforts to address social and environmental problems.
SOCY 4117 - Food and Society
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Fall 2018
Examines the food system along the lines of social justice and environmental sustainability. Investigates the institutional and cultural supports of major food system problems and contemporary efforts to address those problems, including the realms of food production, processing, distribution, marketing, policy, regulation, consumption, and activism.
SOCY 6007 - Foundations of Environmental Sociology
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2021
Provides overview of environmental sociological theory and research including topics such as: public environmental perception, concern, and knowledge; environmentalism as a social movement; environmental justice; energy, technology, and risk; human dimensions of environmental change; and natural hazards and disasters. Same as ENVS 6007.
SOCY 6121 - Qualitative Methods
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021
Training in the systematic observation of people in situations, finding them where they are, staying with them in a role acceptable to them that allows intimate observations of behavior. Students report their findings in ways useful to social science but not harmful to those observed.
