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Date: October 15, 1-2 PM ET
Cost: Free on Zoom Webinar
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This presentation explores the layered realities of environmental racism in Canada through a critical lens that connects colonisation, whiteness, and racialized geographies. Participants will engage with the concept of therapeutic landscapes—spaces often celebrated for healing and wellbeing—but interrogate who truly feels safe, welcome, and restored in these environments.
We will examine how settler-colonial narratives have shaped nature as a white, exclusionary space, and how this has led to landscapes of despair for many Indigenous, Black, and racialized communities. Drawing on examples from across Canada, this session will challenge mainstream environmental discourses and ask: What does it mean to belong in nature when the land itself has been a site of trauma and erasure?
This webinar is designed for individuals working in environmental justice, health, urban planning, community development, and anyone interested in understanding how histories of displacement, systemic racism, and ecological harm intersect on the land.
Proudly Franco-Albertan, Chúk is passionate about the ways in which the environment impacts human health and the role of justice in our understanding of how our societies function. As a result of this passion, Chúk is very active in changemaking spaces in both Canada and at an international scale. His educational background centres the domains of environment science, chemistry, public health and medical geography. His career has focused on environmental and climate justice and outside formal work settings, he is involved in several boards, committees, conferences and movements to reimagine and recreate societal structures and systems for the well-being of all of our kin. Human and non-human. He has recently started a new role as the Consulting Director of Impact Evaluation at the Tamarack Institute Learning Centre.
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