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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

I've launched the updated Environmental and Climate Justice Syllabus! A few notes on the new syllabus! 1/3

The Syllabus — Just Environments Lab

www.just-environments.org

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

Looking at existing Environmental and Climate Justice syllabi that barely feature scholars, activists, and communities of color. So I've given myself the (VERY easy) task of writing a syllabus that features almost exclusively writers of color. Feel free to share readings here!

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

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For those creating syllabi on environmental and/or climate justice, we have an open database of readings centering Black, Indigenous, Asian, and/or Latinx authors! Also, if you have new articles to add to the database let me know! The lab is updating the syllabus this week.

Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

I've launched the updated Environmental and Climate Justice Syllabus! A few notes on the new syllabus! 1/3

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

Some news! In July I’ll be moving to @UCBerkeley as an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, as part of Berkeley’s cluster hire in Climate Equity and Environmental Justice.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

11 months

@nigreaux This one for me.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

4 years

To non-Puerto Ricans looking at the DC vote and saying “let’s make Puerto Rico a state too!”: you are being colonialists. Don’t hit me with your “facts” that obscure PR history and politics, just advocate for self determination and leave the decision to the Puerto Rican people.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

Had to write this tweet a few times due to shock, but the university wants us to teach/work tomorrow like nothing happened: please don’t do that. Stop the productivity machine, take time to reach out to loved ones and heal. Cancel your class, push deadlines, sleep in.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

I peer-review A LOT of environmental justice (EJ) and climate justice (CJ) manuscripts for journals. Here are some notes on why so many of these manuscripts are rejected and how others make it through the review process. (Because I want to see more of these pieces succeed!!!) 1/x

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

Too many people in academia are motivated by vengeance and anger. We need more people motivated by love, care, and a sense of community.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

In my years of community-based work, I've encountered so many professionals and academics who don't understand that "communities" can have multiple grassroots organizations and these orgs often disagree with one another. It often not possible to work with EVERY org. 1/3

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

1 year

"Description is not liberation." ~Katherine McKittrick (2020) This quote keeps rattling in my head this year, as the much of environmental and climate "justice" work focuses solely on descriptions of disparities.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

Realized many who follow me are not Landscape Architects/Urban Designers and may be unfamiliar with the paradigm-shifting works of Anuradha Mathur and Dilip DaCunha. To honor Anu's memory, here is a thread of her and Dilip's groundbreaking works. (Feel free to suggest more!) 1/x

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

At nearly this precise time last year, a well-known planning scholar told me my research and teaching on flooding in California was not (and would never be) useful. I'd like to know how quickly they are "switching" their research to floods now...

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

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That time of year! I'm adding new content to the Environmental and Climate Justice syllabus! I am in the process of linking our new databases resource too and wanted to remind instructors and students that this resource is freely available to all!

The Syllabus — Just Environments Lab

www.just-environments.org

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

Must vent: I am fed up with white scholars that overlook scholars of color on environmental and climate justice. Some don’t even know the major POC scholars, but are getting tenure on the subjects. Y’all are standing on, and crushing, decades of POC work. 1/3

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

My article in Environmental Justice is available! It examines the issues many unincorporated communities face when attempting to mitigate hazards. Specifically, I examine the case of South Texas colonias and the barriers they face in addressing flood risk.

Unincorporated and Underserved: Critical Stormwater Infrastructure Challenges in South Texas...

Most strategies for addressing environmental and climate injustices in the United States are predicated on strong local governance tools, oftentimes tied to land use and zoning. There is, however, no...

www.liebertpub.com

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

I understand many scholars come to EJ/CJ from other research topics, but I won't let authors overlook fifty years of scholarship, legal precedent, and activism from communities of color. 3/x

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

The tweet condemning junior scholars for demanding honoraria is (clumsily) hiding its racism. The primary group that has led the movement for honoraria is women of color, because we are asked to do more for less. Honoraria is the best way to rectify that pay and work inequity.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

1 year

Needed good news: I just won a CalWater/USGS Early Career Research Grant! The funds will be used to expand my lab's work on hazard mitigation in California's unincorporated communities of color!!!

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

1 year

I love geography, but it’s prone to academic “superstars.” At Natural Hazards Workshop, I was able to introduce myself to anyone, met over a dozen new people each day! At AAG, I tried to introduce myself to another tenure-track prof, and he rolled his eyes and walked away. 1/3

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

In 2022, I’ll be considering my relationship to “Planning.” I’ve dedicated 12 years to the field and am still widely not considered a “Planner,” but see men in Masters programs introduced as “Planners.” I’ll be mulling over what this discipline really is and what to do next. 1/2

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

After this year, I absolutely couldn't hold a "traditional" studio review with people dressed in all-black lobbing criticisms at my dear students. We are instead holding an exhibit and series of discussions about the collective impacts of their works on May 2. Lots of food too!

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

As promised to everyone who contributed ideas, here's the beginning of the Environmental and Climate Justice resources page! We are adding more resources now and through Fall, but wanted to share its start, as many of you are actively working on syllabi:

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

I had four students independently stop me in the hallway to say I was their favorite teacher at Berkeley. Given my family's history, being able to write that sentence just fills me with awe. Hope to continue pushing our teaching in 2022! Got big plans for our studio course!

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

In Environmental and Climate Justice, we are discussing Kyle Powys White, Nick Estes, Max Liboiron, and Dina Gilio-Whitaker, amongst other incredible Indigenous EJ scholars, over the next two weeks! Been waiting impatiently for these weeks!

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

Beginning new course development! If anyone has a syllabus that covers participation in design and/or planning, I’d love to do a swap, especially if your course has a community outreach component. Also, any reading suggestions?

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

“Young architects can change the world by not building buildings.” ~ Virgil Abloh (Rest in Power)

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

As many academics complete course syllabi, just a reminder that I've assembled about 100 resources here on environmental, climate, and disaster justice!

Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

I've launched the updated Environmental and Climate Justice Syllabus! A few notes on the new syllabus! 1/3

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

All set for my first day of classes tomorrow! Teaching "Environmental and Climate Justice in Urban Studies" as well as "Public Participation + Community Engagement." Also looking forward to some long overdue fieldwork in Texas and Mississippi this semester!

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

The footnotes in Liboiron’s “Pollution is Colonialism” are incredible. I really want to discuss the book with others, it is amazing and shows a different way to conceive of “research methods.”

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

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Apparently, scholars write about decolonizing environmental justice (EJ) as a "new" idea, but never mention that (1) early EJ activism emphasized this in their advocacy and (2) countless Indigenous EJ scholars note how to incorporate anti-colonial views into EJ work. 1/3

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

4 years

New publication is out! "Disaster Colonialism: A Commentary on Disasters beyond Singular Events to Structural Violence" is an IJURR Viewpoint examining the imperative to center coloniality and colonization in discussions of post-hurricane Puerto Rico.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

4 years

Celebrating women with PhDs! One of the proudest moments of my life, dad is off on the left in the aisle screaming and dancing. Hooded by two amazing women with PhDs: June Thomas and Lesli Hoey. 🙏

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

1 year

Too many scholars conflate "environmentalism" or "talking about environment/landscape" with "environmental justice" And "talking about climate change" with "climate justice" 1/4

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

4 years

Who “counts” as a planning theorist? Why do we listen to some scholars, who are permitted to speak on seemingly endless topics, while rendering others invisible when discussing their very own communities?

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

10 months

My absolute favorite books from the last 10-15 years! I keep returning to these books in my writing, classes, mentorship, lab structure... (along with Lorgia García Peña's "Community as Rebellion," which I loaned to a student!).

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

4 years

Several geography scholars recently tweeted that being a first-generation scholar stops mattering once you reach the tenure track. I’m here to say that it matters at all levels of academia. 1/3

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

Industrial Designer, Planner, Architect, Landscape Architect

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

Departments need to STOP requiring recommendation letters upfront for their open positions. Wait until, at least, the long-list interviews. The amount of wasted labor we expend each year on this...

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

One of the reasons articles fail is because they claim to have "discovered" or "invented" these concepts. When I see this, one of two errors has occurred: (1) you aren't in conversation with relevant EJ or CJ literatures or (2) you are overly centering hegemonic literature. 2/x

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

7 months

Again, again, and again: I have serious issues with scholars and policymakers saying "EJ communities" when they mean "communities enduring environmental injustices and racism."

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

1 year

Scholars keep citing my Disaster Colonialism article in IJURR as “decolonial disaster studies,” but it is anticolonial, and never says “decolonial” anywhere! We need to recognize the difference in disaster studies. (Is this an article I need to write this fall?)

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

10 months

We're expanding the EJ/CJ Syllabus! We're assembling examples of databases on more specific EJ/CJ topics or for specific communities. We're also assembling resources on cases, keywords, organizing networks + more! Feel free to add ideas here or message me!

The Syllabus — Just Environments Lab

www.just-environments.org

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

Mastodon is terrible for junior and/or interdisciplinary scholars. I just see these massive lists of "people to follow" that center senior scholars and strict disciplinary boundaries (like the Geography ones). For junior scholars, Mastodon feels like an empty, echoing room.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

4 years

Launched my new lab and website today: the Just Environments Lab. We have more community reports and research to share in the next two months, but here is our new site:

Just Environments Lab

www.just-environments.org

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

1 year

🎉 Just learned that I got an Early Career award from Cal Water and USGS to conduct my research on rural hazard mitigation! So thrilled to get this work started! 🎉

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

I reviewed a manuscript recently that was so beautifully written and so well-argued, it re-inspired me to write vividly and with conviction. I cannot wait for you all to have the opportunity to read this individual's incredible work! 💕

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

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"Pollution is Colonialism" by Max Liboiron 4/x

Pollution Is Colonialism

books.google.com

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

5 years

It’s quite sad, but I witnessed two Puerto Rican scholars have their work taken from Twitter without citation recently, and it just happened to me too! If you are researching Puerto Rico after Hurricane María, cite Puerto Rican scholars.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

Here's what's on my radar thus far, though I do have more! "Toxic Communities" by Dorceta Taylor 1/x

Toxic Communities

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

My husband surprised me with a ReMarkable tablet this weekend! It's so cool, and prohibits my multi-tasking while reading. (And, yes, we are reading @gemmasou in my Disaster seminar this week! And @KsChmutina too!)

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

5 years

Solidarity from the diaspora! #RickyVeteYa

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

4 months

Yes! My PhD advisor asked me this question instead (which I also teach my students): who are you in conversation with?

Rachelle Chadwick

@DrRChadwick

4 months

God, I am sick and tired of the ‘research gap’ narrative. Can we stop teaching students this nonsense?

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2 months

The insidious ways many faculty and students will treat Black/Indigenous/Latine faculty as "idea-generators," but never as "experts"... It permits a sense of entitlement to then steal/take our work without recognition/citation and hold us in "junior" positions.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

"Our History is the Future" by Nick Estes 2/x

Our History Is the Future

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

Four tests per “address” isn’t working for those with extended families under one roof (LOTS of Latinx households…). I’m hearing many complaints from my own family and from community groups. How our government manages to reproduce inequities at every phase of this pandemic…

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 months

My doctoral student Eliza Breder and I have a chapter in Dr. Sultana's upcoming book "Confronting Climate Coloniality"!!! The cover and details for the book are out!

Prof. Farhana Sultana

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@drvandanashiva @NaomiAKlein @GhoshAmitav @sjndlovugatshen @profjoshlong @bernajurema @DirenValayden @Enviro_conflict @danielle_zoe @laurankuhl @MichaelLomotey @daughterofsahel @KalaniCarlson @ManishaAnanthar @MimiSheller @HaverkampJamie The book will be out shortly, please share this thread above that contains all the information! "Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice" - Edited by Farhana Sultana Details here:

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

4 years

Beware of the "collectors," especially in the coming months. They are faculty and staff that seek out and cling to students of color. They tell these students not to speak to Black and Latinx faculty that can empathize with their struggles. Collectors are false advocates. 1/2

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

3 years

My vote is for a total revolutionization of how we define and frame “Planning.” New modes of thinking and engagement, new definitions of who is “Planning.” We need to do this now to fully address climate change and social injustice.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

5 months

These scholars missed the entire three disciplines I work across (and more)... who wants to co-write a rebuttal to this?

Brendan Coolsaet

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5 months

I had somehow missed this paper published in @NatureClimate in January. How this got through peer-review is beyond me. Claiming to capture "justice considerations in climate research" by erasing 40+ years of environmental justice scholarship & activism is quite an achievement

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

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4 years

Talking about decolonizing planning at a US institution without any Indigenous planners / planners from US colonized territories is counterproductive. So I’m assembling a roundtable for ACSP that opens up THIS conversation. Who would like to join or might be interested?

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

This is also a PSA to junior scholars to always follow your gut instincts on research, particularly if you do community-based research and your partners are telling you things that don't match what well-known scholars are saying.

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3 years

A reason pieces succeed (and catch my eye!): they are serious about the differences between studying "race" and "racism" in EJ/CJ. The latter is more powerful and is where the fields are heading. These pieces tend to be more established in the literature and activism as well. 7/x

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2 years

If I reach 100 overall citations, I'm celebrating! BIG! For a junior scholar who spent much of her early career in design, this is quite exciting! Thrilled to be in conversation with so many excellent disaster studies and environmental planning scholars.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

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4 years

My reappointment went through! Three years to tenure, let's get it!

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

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3 years

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.” bell hooks' Teaching to Transgress is one of the most impactful books I've ever read. She deeply influenced and instigated a generation of women of color. May she rest in power.

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3 years

Another reason pieces succeed is they beautifully unearth a counternarrative about their discipline, more generally, and use EJ/CJ as a lens to do so. This involves careful analysis of what the community was TRULY trying to communicate, but has been unable to state publicly. 8/x

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

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2 years

You can work with one org, but just because others aren't it doesn't mean they are shirking their "responsibilities" to the community. It is entirely possible "your" org is the problem, especially if you just started working in that "community." 2/3

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

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Bonus 4th tweet! I always remember the great advice my prof Scott Campbell gave us, he said: your’s and younger generation of scholars are who you will really work with throughout your career, so never deem yourself “above” them.

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For students: it’s best not to emulate “superstars.” I recently spoke with a scholar, who told me she remembered my kindness at her first ever conference: I had invited her to have lunch with us when she was standing alone. She’s a president of a major academic org now. 3/3

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"Fresh Banana Leaves" by Jessica Hernandez 9/x

Fresh Banana Leaves

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4 years

I'm teaching Planning History & Theory again next semester and am looking for resources to further decolonize the course and its assignments! Any suggested readings/syllabi/resources?

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We are at the "climate scholars are suddenly disaster specialists" time of year. Also "no one has discussed X topic," where X was FIRST written 60 years ago. I got the latter today: "no one has written about disasters and colonialism." I blinked in Disaster Colonialism (2020).

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This week in our Environmental and Climate Justice class focuses on Disaster Justice, and after our first lecture let me tell you: our students in planning and design are pining to work on this topic!!!

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"Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger" by Julie See 3/x

Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger

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Last reason I often see EJ/CJ pieces fail (most disturbingly) is when they try to manipulate the voices of the community they are analyzing. This involves quotes or statements taken out of context to fit a hegemonic narrative in the article. Automatic reject for me... 6/x

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2 years

We are hiring! Landscape Architecture + Environmental Planning at Berkeley is looking for a tenure-track or tenured professor specializing in geospatial research. Please feel free to share the post!

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Academics are clearly burning out. It's a small gesture, but I'll share words of encouragement here each day. Today's: “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'”– Mary Anne Radmacher

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We were awarded a Lau Climate Futures grant to piece together an historical ecology and history of flood injustices in the Pajaro Valley! The resulting maps, analyses, and report will help the Army Corps and many local nonprofits! We began our archival work today!

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"As Long as the Grass Grows" by Dina Gilio-Whitaker 6/x

As Long as Grass Grows

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3 years

In the last 24 hours, I’ve been invited to attend two “the future under climate change” conferences with no speakers of color. That is NOT the future of anything. Why are scholars still doing this?

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An amazing group! And there are so many other faculty across Berkeley who are joining us in this incredible initiative to promote research and teaching on climate equity and environmental justice! So thrilled to be starting this work!

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I’m sick of disaster opportunism in academia. I’ve said it before, but after being stabbed in the back AGAIN: we need to stop doing this. My lab was engaged in long-term hazards planning efforts in the Pájaro Valley, six (white) scholars used us to get grants then dumped us.

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The "community-engaged research" trap for scholars of color: we are expected to "engage" communities, which takes sustained effort over time (often years), only to have other scholars constantly ask for our "contacts" yet never collaborate with us... I'm burnt out.

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2 years

Got new bookshelves in my campus office! Ready for lots of Just Environments Lab meetings!

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So many academics (rightly!) celebrating the Palestinian team in the Olympics, but then (often with much irritation) repeatedly ask me why Puerto Rico "needs" or "has" an Olympic team. First, academics have no consistency when it comes to anti-colonial logic... 1/2

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Academics should be able to share their accomplishments without fear of hate or repercussions. If someone is putting you down after you’ve shared your achievement, tell us and we will shine that light even brighter. These haters in academia can’t take the joy from our work. 1/2

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"Climate Justice from the Streets" by Mike Mendez 7/x

Climate Change from the Streets

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I've dealt with this in the Río Grande Valley. There are over 30 community-based organizations, and only one org I will NOT work with because their organizer harassed me and others. Academics who are new to the RGV constantly use this against me and its beyond disgusting. 3/3

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I am working on formalizing and expanding the Environmental + Climate Justice Syllabus by the end of this month. (Some in-progress pics too!) If you have additional suggestions for the database, please let me know! I'm also commissioning evaluative articles of the database!

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Excellent new article that calls out a lot of recent "climate justice" planning work for not recognizing its origins! It covers core ideas, cases, and contributors that are missing in much work on the subject.

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"The Wrong Complexion for Protection" by Beverly Wright and Robert Bullard" 5/x

The Wrong Complexion for Protection

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Some of us move slowly, thoughtfully, and deliberately in our research. It means we get "scooped" by other researchers a lot, but when our articles are published, we put the scoopers to SHAAAME... (I'm reminding myself as I got double scooped this month.)

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Last two hours at CU-Boulder, beginning at UC Berkeley tomorrow!

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@danielle_zoe

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Another issue, building on above, is EJ/CJ scholarship concluding with EJ/CJ. In other words, if you aren't engaging the literature, your conclusions become a tautology: you state you are studying EJ/CJ and therefore (through your case) what we see is EJ/CJ. No contribution. 4/x

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

"Form and Flow" by Kian Goh 10/x

Form and Flow

books.google.com

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

More planning scholars stole my work from an ACSP conference talk. They could have reached out to collaborate with me, and I would have happily worked with them, but they chose (again) to take my ideas and not cite or include me. I really need to stop going to that conference.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

The problem with academia when you have personal illness or crisis is that there is not a single, centralized point to withdraw from your responsibilities. Instead, you have to send dozens of messages to countless organizations and people. It just increases the stress tenfold.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

Climate adaptation scholars are increasingly "discovering" disasters, but not 60 years of disaster studies scholarship. It's becoming a real problem. In the last 24 hours alone, I've seen four such articles...

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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle_zoe

2 years

My landscape photos will be on display in Central PA in a week as part of a family exhibit! It's me and my mom, dad, sister, aunt, and cousin! So thrilled, I've never shown my black and white photography in an exhibit before.

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