Liminal Spaces: Saru Jayaraman Pt.2 (Season 2, Episode 4)
This is the second part of an interview between our host Professor Ravi Rajan and Professor Saru Jayaraman from the University of California, Berkeley to discuss her work on fair wages in the restaurant industry and its intersections with race and gender.At UC Berkeley, Saru Jayaraman is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, the director of the Food Labor Research Center, and the co-founder and co-director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United). She is also the president of One Fair Wage and an attorney. Her work focuses on the intersections of food and labor policy, U.S. social movements, mobilizing the working class, and fair wages for restaurant and other service workers.
Liminal Spaces: Saru Jayaraman Pt.1 (Season 2, Episode 4)
In this episode, our host Professor Ravi Rajan sits down with Professor Saru Jayaraman from the University of California, Berkeley to discuss her work on fair wages in the restaurant industry and its intersections with race and gender. At UC Berkeley, Saru Jayaraman is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, the director of the Food Labor Research Center, and the co-founder and co-director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United). She is also the president of One Fair Wage and an attorney. Her work focuses on the intersections of food and labor policy, U.S. social movements, mobilizing the working class, and fair wages for restaurant and other service workers.
Liminal Spaces: David Sonnenfeld (Season 1, Episode 9)
In this episode, our host, Professor Ravi Rajan, speaks with UC Santa Cruz alum, Professor David Sonnenfeld, who is a professor of Environmental Studies at the State University of New York at Syracuse. Dr. Sonnenfeld is a leading thinker in the sociology of the environment and natural resources, in comparative environmental politics, sustainable development, and transboundary water governance. His research field sites expand the globe and have included East and Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He’s the author of several books and high-profile publications and has a distinguished record as an academic pioneer, including serving as the editor of the prestigious journal, Society and Natural Resources, associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, and a member of the founding editor report of the journal, Environmental Sociology.
Liminal Spaces: Anna Grear Pt. 2 (Season 1 Episode 8)
In this episode, our host, Professor Ravi Rajan, continues his interview with Professor Anna Grear. This week’s episode is a continuation of the discussion on Dr. Grear’s work regarding the legal subjectivity of non-human entities. This part of the interview focuses on the concept of New Materialist thought as a post-humanist theory as well as Dr. Grear’s past work with the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment and her most recent publication co-authored with David Bollier, The Great Awakening: New Modes of Life Amongst Capitalist Ruins. To learn more about Dr. Grear’s work, please visit her faculty website.
Liminal Spaces: Anna Grear Pt. 1 (Season 1 Episode 7)
This week, our host, Professor Ravi Rajan, interviews Dr. Anna Grear on her work regarding human rights and environmental law, particularly in regards to her publications regarding the legal subjectivity of non-human entities. Professor Grear is a professor of law at Cardiff University in the U.K. and is the founder as well as the editor in chief of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. To learn more about Dr. Grear’s work, please visit her faculty website at: www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/478859-grear-anna. The following link includes information about Anna Grear’s previous work, publications, and research which will provide insight into various topics discussed in this interview such as the current legal framework of non-human subjects as well as guardianship over such subjects.
Liminal Spaces: Sacoby Wilson Pt. 2 (Season 1 Episode 6)
This week, our host, Professor Ravi Rajan, continues the second half of his interview with Dr. Sacoby Wilson. This week’s episode is a continuation of the discussion on Professor Wilson’s work involving community-based research methods to investigate environmental injustices in regards to health disparities, environmental racism, air pollution, and water quality. Dr. Wilson also provides insights on the future of the environmental justice movement in regards to the current Biden-Harris administration, including both praises and critiques. To learn more about Sacoby Wilson’s research, please visit his faculty site at: sph.umd.edu/people/sacoby-wilson.
Liminal Spaces: Sacoby Wilson Pt. 1 (Season 1 Episode 4)
In this week’s episode, our host, Professor Ravi Rajan, interviews Professor Sacoby Wilson to discuss his work regarding exposure science, environmental health disparities, community-engaged research, water quality analysis, air pollution, built environment, industrial animal production, climate change, community resiliency, and sustainability. He has an extensive body of work including a variety of publications investigating the impacts of environmental racism within the DC and Maryland area. Dr. Wilson is an Associate Professor at the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Maryland. To learn more about Sacoby Wilson’s research, please visit his faculty site at: sph.umd.edu/people/sacoby-wilson.
Liminal Spaces: Erin Daly (Season 1 Episode 3)
This week our host, Professor Ravi Rajan, interviews Erin Daly: a professor of law at Delaware Law School and the co-founder of the Dignity Rights Project. This interview highlights Dr. Daly’s work on the concept of “dignity rights”, how such fundamental rights are implemented into international legal systems, and how dignity rights connect to environmental law in regards to the rights of nature. Additionally, Professor Daly discusses her work with the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment. To learn more about the GNHRE, dignity rights, and Dr. Daly’s work, please visit the following links: gnhre.org/ and delawarelaw.widener.edu/current-stude…ghts-project/.
Liminal Spaces: David Pellow Pt. 2 (Season 1 Episode 2)
This week our host, Professor Ravi Rajan, continues his interview with Professor David Pellow. Last week, our podcast highlighted Dr. Pellow’s research investigating environmental toxicity in the context of incarceration as well as his work on understanding abolition from an environmental justice framework. This week, the conversation continues and expands upon Dr. Pellow’s work on “critical environmental justice”, multi-species liberation, environmental toxicity in Silicon Valley, as well as the role of gender and sexuality in EJ studies.
Liminal Spaces: David Pellow Pt. 1 (Season 1 Episode 2)
This week our host, Professor Ravi Rajan, interviews Professor David Pellow on his research investigating environmental toxicity in the context of incarceration as well as his work on understanding abolition from an environmental justice framework. Dr. Pellow is the director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he is a professor of Environmental Studies, and is the author of several books including What Is Critical Environmental Justice? and Total Liberation. To learn more about David Pellow, please visit his faculty site at www.es.ucsb.edu/david-n-pellow. The website for the Global Environmental Justice Project at UCSB can be found at gejp.es.ucsb.edu/.
Liminal Spaces: Michael Mascarenhas (Season 1 Episode 1)
In our first episode of Liminal Spaces, our host, Professor Ravi Rajan, interviews Dr. Mascarenhas on the origins of the Flint Water Crisis, how neoliberal policies impact water rights globally, the toxin industry’s role in perpetuating environmental racism, as well as the failures of corporate philanthropy. Michael Mascarenhas is a professor of race, culture, and environment at the University of California, Berkeley and is the author of several books including his most recent publication New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity: Good Intentions on the Road to Help. For more information on Dr. Mascarenhas and his work, please visit his faculty site at ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people/mich…mascarenhas.
