Forthcoming Book release! Hillary Angelo on How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
About the Book As projects like Manhattan’s High Line, Chicago’s 606, China’s eco-cities, and Ethiopia’s tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are devoting serious resources to urban greening. Formerly neglected urban spaces and new high-end developments draw huge crowds thanks to the considerable efforts of city governments. But why are greening projects so widely taken… Continue Reading Forthcoming Book release! Hillary Angelo on How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Science & Justice Training Program celebrates 10-year anniversary
The Science & Justice Training Program (SJTP) celebrates its 10th anniversary! The SJTP is creating the next generation of path-breaking researchers who have the tools needed to not only be powerful stewards of socially robust science, engineering, and technology but to become more engaged as citizens concerned with racial, gender, and economic justice. Next offered Winter 2022! Continue Reading Science & Justice Training Program celebrates 10-year anniversary
Prospective Student Opportunity | history of science, medicine, environment in the Global South
The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz is recruiting the first in a series of PhD students to begin in the fall of 2021 to pursue research on the history of science, the history of medicine, and/or environmental history in the Global South. Applicants may specialize in the study of the… Continue Reading Prospective Student Opportunity | history of science, medicine, environment in the Global South
Book Release! Madeleine Fairbairn on Fields of Gold, Financing the Global Land Rush, (Cornell University Press, 2020)
About the Book Fields of Gold critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the financialization of farmland. In particular, Madeleine Fairbairn focuses on developments in two of the most popular investment locations, the US and Brazil, looking at the implications of financiers’ acquisition of land and control over resources for rural livelihoods and… Continue Reading Book Release! Madeleine Fairbairn on Fields of Gold, Financing the Global Land Rush, (Cornell University Press, 2020)
Game launch! Sin Sol / No Sun by micha cárdenas
About the Game Created by the UCSC Critical Realities Studio Sin Sol / No Sun is an augmented reality game that allows users to experience the feelings of a climate change event, in order to deeply consider how climate change disproportionately effects immigrants, trans people and disabled people. Players can find, see and hear a story… Continue Reading Game launch! Sin Sol / No Sun by micha cárdenas
Giving Day fundraiser for Science & Justice Training Program
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 All-Day Join the Science & Justice Research Center at UC Santa Cruz on Wednesday September 30th, for Giving Day, a 24-hour online fundraising drive! Help us celebrate the 10 year anniversary of our Science & Justice Training Program (SJTP) by supporting our graduate student researchers through the Science & Justice campaign. Incentives to… Continue Reading Giving Day fundraiser for Science & Justice Training Program
Royal Geographical Society publishes special COVID-19 issue
A virtual special issue of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers features Politics Professor and S&J Advisor Matt Sparke’s article, “Contextualizing Coronavirus Geographically,” and provides free access to additional articles that provide perspective on the pandemic. More in this campus news article, “Royal Geographical Society publishes special COVID-19 issue.”
Social Sciences Research Council Insights: V is for Veracity
According to Jenny Reardon, professor of sociology and the founding director of the Science and Justice Research Center, creating trust-worthy knowledge that can foster a more just world requires attending to both COVID-19 pandemic and the deep inequalities and fissures in the polity that this pandemic has laid bare. Read more in this Social Sciences… Continue Reading Social Sciences Research Council Insights: V is for Veracity