Critical Campus Sustainabilities: Bridging Social Justice and the Environment in Higher Education (Sustainable Development Goals Series)

Preface
Acknowledgments
References
Contents
Introduction
	The People of Color Sustainability Collective
	The Nexus of Environmental Sustainability, Social Justice, and Higher Education
	Organization of the Edited Volume
	References
Part I: Hearing and Addressing Students’ Needs
	1: Inclusive Sustainability: The Emergence and Vision of PoCSC
		Introduction
		Elida Erickson
		Rebecca Hernandez
		Adriana Renteria
		The People of Color Sustainability Collective
		Conclusion
		References
	2: Student Voices on Environmental Spaces and Experiences in Higher Education
		Introduction
		Who Are We?
			Kimberly (Kimie) Dare
			Riri Shibata
		Roundtable Methods
		Getting to Know Each Other
		Mainstream Environmentalism
		Envisioning Equity
		Sustainability on Campus
		The UCSC Environmental Studies Department
		Moving Forward
		Discussion
			Kimie’s Reflection
			Riri’s Reflection
		Final Thoughts
		References
	3: Teaching Critical Sustainability Studies: Towards a Relational Pedagogy
		Introduction
		Relational Pedagogies and Critical Sustainability Studies
		Reflections of Relational Pedagogies in Practice
		Conclusion
		References
Part II: UCSC Students’ Sustainability Perceptions, Understandings, and Values
	4: Student Understandings of Sustainability
		Introduction
		Methods
		Findings
			Overall Campus Rankings
			Rankings Across Racial Categories
			Rankings Across Gender
			Rankings Across First-Generation Status
			Rankings Across Disciplinary Major
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		References
	5: The Environmental Belief Paradox
		Introduction
		Methods
		Findings
			PoC vs. WNH
			Race/Ethnicity
			Gender
			First Generation vs. Continuing Generation
			Environmental Majors vs. Other Majors
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		References
	6: Environmental Sustainability and Epidemiological Struggle: Student Experiences of COVID-19
		Introduction
		Methods
		Findings
			Community Environmental Health Threat Exposure
			COVID-19 + Environmental Health Threats
			COVID-19 + and Sustainability
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		References
	7: Critical Environmentalisms: Overcoming Institutional Obstacles to Meet Students’ Demands for Sustainability Curricula and Action
		Introduction
		UCSC, Then and Now
		Trends in Undergraduate Environmental Concern
		Curricular Impacts and Areas of Need
		Faculty Perspectives on Environmental Education at UCSC
		Conclusion
		References
Part III: Community-Engaged Critical Sustainabilities
	8: Developing a Praxis of Loving Relations: Lessons from a Community-University Partnership that Centers Undergraduate Research and Learning
		Introduction
		The (H)ACER Program: An Apprenticeship in Community-Engaged Research
			Developing Ethnographic Sensibilities
			(H)ACER’s Guiding Principles
		Toward an Ethic of Loving Relations
		Practicing an Ethic of Loving Relations
			Entering in Relation
			Following the Community Gardener’s Lead
			Being Honest and Accountable to the Gardeners
		Conclusion
		References
	9: Plantando Amor y Cultivando Unidad: A Story of Building and Sustaining an Immigrant-Led Community Garden in Partnership with a University
		Introduction
		A Walk Through the Garden
		Collaborative Beginnings
		An Undergraduate Internship
		The University/Community Partnership
		The Garden Flourishes
		Undergraduate Apprentices in the Garden
		How Do We Sustain This?
		References
	10: Environmental Justice Youth Leadership in Salinas Valley, CA
		Introduction
		Theoretical Frameworks
			Critical Environmental Justice
			Critical Youth Activism Within the Environmental Justice Movement
		Background
			Environmental Justice Issues in Salinas Valley
			Grassroots Organizing in Salinas Valley
		The Environmental Justice Youth Leadership Academy
			Agustin’s Positionality
			Karen’s Positionality
			Early EJYLA Efforts
			Leaders4EARTH’s EJYLA
		Conclusion
		References
Conclusion: Sustainability Education and the Future
	Introduction
	UCSC on the National Stage: Graduate Students on Strike
	The “Unrelenting Anti-blackness” of Environmental Studies and UCSC
	On the Frontlines of the Wildcat Strike
	Relationality and Collectivity in #COLA4ALL: Critical Sustainabilities, Labor Movements, Social Justice
	Conclusion
References
Appendix A: Self-Assessment for Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability
Index