This seminar seeks to examine how African literatures, film, arts, and cultural practices address instances of ongoing environmental degradation, anthropogenic violence, and the lived effects of environmental in/justice in Africa; how they portray indigenous environmentalisms, survival tactics, mitigation efforts, or resilience measures; and how they contribute to the construction of a sustainable and inclusive environmental justice agenda in the global commons. Papers might consider, inter alia:

• The historical, geopolitical, and economic factors that contribute to the persistence of environmental injustice in African societies;
• The human effects of environmental degradation, climate change, and “slow violence,” including the effects of pollution, deforestation, mining, agrobusinesses, e-waste etc.;
• Social and psychological impacts of disasters, displacements, homelessness, injury, chronic illness etc. produced by extractive industries, agrobusinesses, or climate change
• Necropolitical regimes and the production of systemic environmental inequality;
• Economic and political conflicts over resource control or indigenous communities’ assertions of rights over land, water, or mineral resources;
• The role of “development” programs in exacerbating or ameliorating environmental degradation;
• Health impacts of environmental inequalities on humans and other animals;
• Innovative survival and resilience strategies adopted by particular communities;
• Social,  political, or activist programs aimed at building and enhancing environmental justice; or
• Theorization of relevant key concepts such as extraction, toxicity, degradation, precarity, restitution, sustainability, environmentalism, or eco-poetics.