Criminology 3703 -- Toxic In/Justice. Green Criminology -- Room TBA, MWF 2.30     course outline    gradesheet

week one -- sept 03-05 foundations I
wed:  orientation: issues, places, action
week five -- sept 29-03 transgression II
mon: cch06 notes
wed: xtra Muskrat Falls #5
issue: protesting/protecting place
week nine -- oct 27-31intervention II
mon: ch11/12notes regulation
xtra: Sydney tar ponds
week thirteen -- nov 24-28 **
mon -
wed -
presn's@15mins=75mins...
week two -- sept 8-12 foundations II
mon: green crim intro
wed: cont. #1 
issue: climate on fire 
week six -- oct 6-10  transgression III
mon: chs7/8notes harm
wed: xtra: Love Canal #6
issue: activism
week ten --nov 03-07 intervention III
mon - ch13 forensic studies
wed - xtra: fracking@Rexton
week fourteen -- dec 01-05 **
mon -
wed -
presn's@15mins=75mins...
week three -- sept 15-19 foundations III
mon: ch02/03 notes; enviroprotests #2
wed: xtra: Grassy Narrows
issue: local/global
week seven -- oct 13-17 no classes
mon - Thanksgiving uni closed
wed - time off for project, no class
proposal due end of week
week eleven -- nov 10-14
mon - Reading week
11.11 Remembrance
week fifteen -- dec 08-12
mon - summary + evalns
12.09 last day
week four -- sept 22-26 transgression I
mon: chs 4/5notes #3
wed: xtra: Boat Harbour, video #4
issue: enviroracism
week eight -- oct 20-27 intervention I
mon: chs 9/10 pollution/victims
wed:  xtra: climate activists
issue: harm and biodiversity
week twelve -- nov 17-21 innovations
mon: ch14enviro courts
wed: ch15 prevention
xtra: Westray; science & glyphosate
exam -- 

engagement exercises:
#1. 9.10. attendance and participation
#2. 9.15. reflection on enviro-graffiti picture
#3. 9.22. How was the social construction of harm represented in these videos?
#4. 9.24. How optimistic can you be based on the video?
#5. 10.01. Why is it important to develop the authentic voice?
#6. 10.08. what is the importance of calling it "useless housewife data"?

video resources:
Timeline: A brief history of Boat Harbour and Northern Pulp, 7mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZX-ciPT6TY
N.S. pulp mill decision pits industry against environment, 10mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHqSqZF0OYM&t=319s
Mi'kmaq elders reflect on how a toxic dumping site changed their community, 7mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtbCKMseGjE
How Fishermen and First Nations are Fighting Together for Clean Water, 8mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UGxcPTV1J0&t=1s
Pictou Landing Film - Boat Harbour & the Mill, 7mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDYwZO9Ot44&t=2s
Reclaiming A'se'k: Boat Harbour and the Next Generation, 7mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbMrwR0fjRc


Resources from 2024/25:

Sample engagement exercise:  Write an introductory paragraph about the issue, and then watch the study video, and with the resources below, discuss the 'harm' involved in the Boat Harbour incident and how power was an issue in the toxic crime and in getting anything done about it.  video Climate Chaos
Study video: Boat Harbour, 45mins, link

Assignments: In general, assignments are excuseable but not makeupable.
Q1 1.15. Are protests effective. If not, why. If so, how?
Q2  1.20. Why are such survivor statements important? (re Westray  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPyaIAQzFvk
Q3 1.22. What is the likelihood of such an event happening again? video: Reclaiming A'se'k: Boat Harbour and the Next Generation
Q4. 1.29. What emotions are involved in moving forward (re Boat Harbour).
Q5. 2.03. How do you define an environmental crisis?
Q6. 2.05. How could the presentation be improved?
Q7. 2.10. Should Lois Gibbs be a climate hero?
Q8. 2.12. Why has the problem at Grassy Narrows persisted?
Q9. 2.19. Why is it important to speak up? With regard to the video on the danger of being silent.
Q10. 2.24. Does one have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws? wrt "The Crime: Compassion"
Q11. 2.26. Was the surveillance of the protestors warranted?
Q12. 3.19. What was the most important thing you heard/learned today during the presentation?
Q13. 3.24. Is the indigenous perspective of Winona Laduke part of the solution to colonial development?
** attendance at participations

Watch "Meet the animal rights activists... 20mins" link, and summarize the issues.

NEW COURSE DESCRIPTION: Hell and Damnation: Apocalypse Criminology, Crim 3903
"We live in a time of crisis, exacerbated and made intractable by social, economic, and political problems, all with effects on personal liberty and social control. These include economic mass migration due to famine; globalization and the movement of capital to offshore zones; the plutocratic greed of the one percent, the fading of the middle class and a growing precariat; refugees of climate change brought on by fossil fuel, toxic colonialism and environmental racism; terrorism and counter-terrorism; political civil unrest and its suppression by an expanding surveillance state; activism of the dispossessed, and cyber counter-activism; the effect of living in stranger-economies; and pandemics and the effect of disinformation. These and other portents are part of a gathering storm of global crisis and discontent with profound implications for both the practice and the study of deviance and criminal justice."

Resources:
"Boiling Point: Climate Chaos," CBC. 2024, https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.7118212
"TESTING THE LINE. Canada Considers What Makes a Terrorist," article, https://theintercept.com/2019/05/12/animal-rights-activism-canada/

"Spraying Glyphosate on our Forests - Stop the Spray!," 4 mins, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpRWLayXhlM
"Why care about climate migrants in an era of loss and damage," LAUREN GRANT | TEDxLimassol, 2023, 17mins, www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE4xRb1rjEg
**"Climate Change is a Social Justice Issue | Adriana Laurent | TEDxUBC," 2018, 14mins, www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRmHp0VC4K4

"Environmental Justice in Mi'kmaq & African Nova Scotian Communities," Ingrid Waldron | TEDxMSVUWomen, 19mins, 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=itRiNmo3hq8
Environmental Racism: There's Something in the Water, 1.32 hr. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeZw5dsAw2M
**"What Does "Environmental Racism" Look Like in Canada?," (interview with Ingrid Waldron), 5mins, 2022, www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhOq-Ya8AlU

"Animal rights -- birth of an activist | Simone Reyes | TEDxOrangeCoast," 11mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erg8sDIYjmw
"Misery and Slow Death for Pigs Crated in Filthy Factory in British Columbia," 2019, 2mins, Misery, Slow Death for Pigs Crated in Filthy Canadian Factory | PETA
The Reason: "W5: Alleged animal abuse at an Ontario pig farm," 23mins, link *trigger warning*
"Testing the Line. As Animal Rights Activists Push Legal Boundaries, Canada Considers What Makes a Terrorist," The Intercept, 5.12.19. link

"Why Capitalism is Killing Us," 24mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2YEeeu-LKo
"Naomi Klein – On Fire (Willy Brandt Lecture 2019)," 49 mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx9XiLMiugU
The Nature of Things: Rebellion, 44mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1_BuAQ8GFU

Gaslands (the movie, 1.42 hrs videolink
The Social Dilemma, 3mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaC57tcci0
Sacred land, unholy uranium: Canada's mining industry in conflict with First Nations, 3.30.16, link
Three Seconds: link
The toxic impact of Canada's oil sands industry on Indigenous communities
This Changes Everything, with Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein, 3mins, Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein on their documentary This Changes Everything | CBC.ca
         
The Response: "A global rebellion: millions of young people fighting for a livable planet | The Nature of Things," 40mins, link
... and this article: "Jury acquits Extinction Rebellion protesters despite ‘no defence in law’," The Guardian, 4.23.21, link     
Inside Extinction Rebellion, 20 mins, link
Clayoquot resources including video: link

"Pesticides - DDT - Rachel Carson - Silent Spring," 11mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipbc-6IvMQI

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