This Months Reading Meeting held: August 26, 2020 Sign up here The Oppression of Women and Nature: Ecofeminism as a Framework for an Expanded Ecological Social Work Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 2002 Fred BesthornDiane McMillen
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Chemical Exposures, Health, and Environmental Justice in Communities Living on the Fenceline of Industry
Recent Findings “More people are living near oil and gas development due to the expansion of unconventional extraction techniques as well as near industrial animal operations, both with suggestive evidence of increased exposure to hazardous pollutants and adverse health effects. Legacy contamination continues to adversely impact a new generation of residents in fenceline communities, withContinue reading “Chemical Exposures, Health, and Environmental Justice in Communities Living on the Fenceline of Industry”
A Social Work Paradox: By Holding the Space we are Silent
Environmental Activists of Color – Yes! Magazine
Elsa Mengistu — Read on http://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/world-we-want/2020/02/19/environmental-activists-of-color/
Global Public Goods(GPGs):Global Social Issue
Global Public Goods (GPGs) is a variable which serves global agendas due to the necessary use of Intellectual Knowledge house in GPGs as platforms for strategic building in developing countries. As social workers engage with international relations the profession must have access to the most recent research. Often research is housed by gatekeepers. Thus, GPGsContinue reading “Global Public Goods(GPGs):Global Social Issue”
Sustainability May not be the Methodological Approach to Solving Modern Environmental Issues.
Weitzer (2015) raises a tone, which seems similar to that of Michelle Alexanders, The New Jim Crow (2010). The importance of writer’s, both academic and not, taking the time to not only deepen their scope but develop an agenda that is indicative of a proclamation is beautiful to me. The importance of the writer’s taking the timeContinue reading “Sustainability May not be the Methodological Approach to Solving Modern Environmental Issues.”
Personal Stance(s) on Social Welfare and the Intersection of Economic and Political Philosophies
To provide further insight about my own social and cultural experiences -what serves as the driving force for my passions as a social worker is fueled by the discrepancies individuals face in regards to access- specifically that of which comes from the physical world; or Natural Environment. Having grown up in an upper middle classContinue reading “Personal Stance(s) on Social Welfare and the Intersection of Economic and Political Philosophies”
Environmentally Displaced, Trauma, & Sensory Processing
The 🗞 and 📺 are not where you want to to get information from… with that being said, scholarly research is costly. #socialworkers can’t advocate without access to research & yet we. lose access to peer reviewed academic articles when we no long hold a connection to the #academic world• “Despite the lack of robustContinue reading “Environmentally Displaced, Trauma, & Sensory Processing”
The Theory is There- Economic Value to the Question of Deep Ecology is not
I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It’s not academic for me. -Kamala Harris This quote continues to resonate with me as I answer the questions asContinue reading “The Theory is There- Economic Value to the Question of Deep Ecology is not”
Who will win? Man or nature? A Timeless Question
There has been an attempt to turn an actual conversation, which at one point was modern, into some post-modern hype. The children protesting are not posing some satirical Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift, 1729) esque archetype. They are disturbed. The ongoing public conversation about the environment is grounded in the ancient dichotomy of man versus natureContinue reading “Who will win? Man or nature? A Timeless Question”
