Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice: Distinguished Annual Lecture with Dr. Ingrid Waldron

Thursday, February 4, 2021 - 16:30

Join the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, in collaboration with the Windsor Law Cities and Climate Action Forum, for the annual distinguished lecture series with Dr. Ingrid Waldron, an associate professor with the Dalhousie University Faculty of Health and director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities & Community Health Project (ENRICH).

In her presentation, "Mapping Racial Geographies of Violence on the Colonial Landscape", Dr. Ingrid Waldron unpacks the concept of “spatial violence” to examine the social justice dimensions of race, place, space, and in the Indigenous and Black communities in Canada. In unpacking how hierarchies and intersections of race, culture, gender, income, class, and other social identities are spatialized in the places and spaces where we live, work, and play, she highlights the larger socio-spatial processes that create disproportionate exposure and vulnerability to the harmful social, economic, and health impacts of inequality in Indigenous and Black communities. She also argues that the lived experience of spatial violence and toxic exposure live together and that it is not possible to understand their impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in isolation. In so doing, she disrupts traditional notions of “the environment” that are centred on harmonizing cities and nature by engaging in a conceptual re-imagining of the environment as a product of both the symbolic meaning of space and the materiality of space.

Location: Online (Zoom)

Register: bit.ly/A2Jlecture

Questions? Please contact wyaj@uwindsor.ca.

Event Location: 
Online
Event URL: 
https://www.uwindsor.ca/law/2526/windsor-yearbook-access-justice-distinguished-lecture-dr-ingrid-waldron