Land, Power, and Belonging: Unpacking Environmental Racism in Canada with Chuk Odenigbo
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This presentation explores the layered realities of environmental racism in Canada through a critical lens that connects colonisation, whiteness, and racialized geographies. Participants will engage with the concept of therapeutic landscapes—spaces often celebrated for healing and wellbeing—but interrogate who truly feels safe, welcome, and restored in these environments.
We will examine how settler-colonial narratives have shaped nature as a white, exclusionary space, and how this has led to landscapes of despair for many Indigenous, Black, and racialized communities. Drawing on examples from across Canada, this session will challenge mainstream environmental discourses and ask: What does it mean to belong in nature when the land itself has been a site of trauma and erasure?
This webinar is designed for individuals working in environmental justice, health, urban planning, community development, and anyone interested in understanding how histories of displacement, systemic racism, and ecological harm intersect on the land.
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