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Research Frontiers in Environmental Justice and Industrial Colonialism

Investigates how industrial development, extraction, and pollution disproportionately affect Indigenous communities and communities of color across North America.

Sacrifice Zones: Mapping Toxicity Across Settler Colonial Landscapes

Indigenous Land Sovereignty and Extractive Resource Regimes

Environmental Racism in Post-Industrial Urban Corridors

Water Dispossession and Hydrological Colonialism in North America

Petrochemical Legacies and Community Health Disparities

Contested Ecologies: Native Environmental Knowledge versus Industrial Imperatives

Accumulation by Contamination: Industrial Waste as Colonial Tool

Atmospheric Violence: Air Pollution and Racialized Geographies

Restoration Justice: Decolonizing Environmental Remediation Practices

Surveillance Infrastructure: Monitoring and Control in Polluted Communities

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