The Critical Environmental Justice Lab at UC Berkeley was established in the Fall of 2017. Currently, its participants include: Michael Mascarenhas (coordinator), and Alejo Garcia Aguilera, Ataya Ceespooch, Mindy Price, Katherine Wolf – PhD graduate students in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management (ESPM), and Jenny Rempel, and Ella Belfer – PhD students in Energy and Resources Group (ERG). The CEJ Lab’s purpose is to provide a space for students and faculty to cultivate a deeper understanding of the social and environmental relations that articulate at the...
As places of exception and mass incarceration, the camp constitutes a space set apart outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. Camps are intimately related to the era of colonization and its attendant processes of invasion, occupation, disruption and relocation. They are nodes of state power and spatial manifestation of a society that periodically splinters into distinct categories based on belonging or non-belonging. This working group centers its focus on the space of the camp, in an interdisciplinary context, to explore how its ‘architectures’ have operated to shape, detain and...
Digital Ethnic Studies is an undergraduate and graduate student-led working group that is oriented around critical issues and questions related to digital media and technology. Our focus on technology considers how interconnectivity with digital logics, practices, and infrastructures substantially transforms Ethnic Studies discourses around bodies, communities, histories, power, and movements. Drawing from multiple disciplines and fields, our diverse scholarly backgrounds bring together a wealth of knowledge across geographies, histories, and cultural traditions. Thus, this working...
This working group seeks to add new voices, and new lenses, to the new media studies “conversation,” in order to diversify and broaden the scope of that conversation. The overarching goals of this group are: to share resources on issues of race/ethnicity/nation and new media; to foster the creation of new scholarship on these issues; and to nurture fellowship and social networking among scholars, particularly scholars of color, working in the field of new media studies. As a group, the Color of New Media has always been interested in sharing and popularizing scholarship by or about...
Asian American Feminist Theory is a graduate student–led working group oriented around contemporary theorizations of Asiatic femininity. In the wake of ongoing violence that has laid bare the particular vulnerabilities of Asian American women, we aim to foster an energetic conversation around questions of race, gender, sexuality, materiality, aesthetics, visual culture, and embodiment posed by Asian American feminist theorizing. We welcome undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty from all disciplines to join us for regular meetings, guest talks, and collaborative projects....