40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism -- November 7, 2023
Channel: The United Church of Canada
Date: 14/11/2023

A webinar from United in Learning

A History of Violence: The Legacy of Environmental Racism in Canada
Dr. Ingrid Waldron


Canada was founded on enslavement and dispossession, most exemplified by its assimilationist ideologies and policies; the displacement, subjugation, and oppression of Indigenous and Black peoples and cultures; and the expropriation of Indigenous lands. The colonial theft of land and the accumulation of capital have been foundational to Canada’s wealth. In this presentation, Dr. Ingrid Waldron uses settler colonial theory to examine environmental racism in Canada to highlight the symbolic and material ways in which the geographies of Indigenous and Black peoples have been characterized by erasure, domination, dehumanization, destruction, dispossession, exploitation, and genocide. She offers a historical overview of cases of environmental racism in Canada, and outlines how she has been addressing environmental racism over the last 10 years in partnership with Indigenous and Black communities and their allies.