Global Health News

Date: Feb 1, 2016 @ 7pm
Location: Auditorium SCHW 110, Schwartz School of Business, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish
Speaker: Ingrid Waldron, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Professions, Dalhousie University
Title: Polluted Places: A Socio-Spatial Analysis of Environmental Racism in Nova Scotia

There is a history in Nova Scotia of rendering mute the complex and specific ways in which race and class get written into environmental policies that dictate where and how polluting industries and other environmental harms are located. Environmental decision-making and local land-use planning operate at the intersection of science, economics, politics, and special interests in ways that put the health and socio-economic well-being of communities of colour at risk. Therefore, there is a need to look at the interrelationship between white settler colonialism, race, class, power, environment, vulnerability, and health.