Smith College's Moodle

Our class will introduce you to restorative responses to climate change. Although climate change affects everyone, it especially harms Black, Indigenous, and low-income people. These groups have also led the efforts to combat climate change by protesting capitalist extraction of resources, building food sovereignty, and leading ecological restoration projects.

Our class centers Indigenous and Black perspectives on climate justice, especially ideas and practices that restore traditional, anticapitalist land and water stewardship, fishing, and farming. In addition to readings, you will gain interdisciplinary experiences through visits to the Smith College Museum of Art, the Botanic Garden, the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center, the Neilson Library’s Special Collections, and the MacLeish Field Station. We will sometimes have class outside, sitting on the grass, standing, and walking. Our course materials and discussions will help you generate ideas to write about.