Motivation to Teach Social Action:
I am excited to learn more about how to implement social action as part of my teaching and to translate ideas on social justice into action.
Course Description:
This course explores theoretically informed and politically committed scholarship within the discipline and beyond, aimed at the pursuit of social justice. The course addresses several pressing societal and environmental challenges facing our world at this juncture. Since we cannot explore all the world's (in)justices in one term, the course takes a feminist intersectional approach to address a variety of social justice issues including decoloniality/indigeneity, racial capitalism, environmental justice, economic inequality, food security, borders, and militarization. We begin from the premise that any attempt at spatial justice must be rooted in a deeper understanding of colonialism,
Taught By:
Mona Atia
Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs
Geography/International Affairs
George Washington University
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