Ep 77: Environmental justice tactics, strategies, and institutions
“Even if it’s not getting you the whole thing you want right now, being part of these organizing lineages is something that gives people energy, a sense of possibility, a sense of pride, a sense of that you’re standing on somebody’s shoulders, which is really different than just feeling completely alone.”
A conversation with Professor Tracy Perkins (Arizona State University) about the history of the environmental justice movement in California and different types of environmental action and activism. Released November 7, 2025.
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Tracy Perkins
Tracy Perkins is an associate professor in the School of Social Transformation. She specializes in social inequality, social movements and the environment through a focus on environmental justice activism. Her 2022 book, Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism (University of California Press), examines the political evolution of the California environmental justice movement from the 1980s to the mid 2010s. In addition to her academic writing, Perkins documents environmental justice activism for public audiences. Examples include Voices from the Valley: Environmental Justice in California’s San Joaquin Valley, In Her Own Words: Remembering Teresa de Anda, Pesticides Activist (1959-2014), the Buzzard Point Oral History Project in Washington DC, and a project-in-development to create a digital archive and multi-media storytelling website on a 1990s era anti-nuclear waste landfill campaign along the lower Colorado River. See more of her work at tracyperkins.org.
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