The Environmental Justice Movement changed the field of Environmental Studies in this country. Social justice and advocacy movements are an important complements to politics, policy, and governance. These areas of research are integral to any work we do, from conservation to policy. Antioch’s approach is bottom-up, honoring diversity, promoting restorative justice and asset-based community development approaches to justice. Students engage in research and service that is of direct benefit to communities. Our students and faculty have worked with indigenous and non-indigenous communities to tell the stories of those resisting and those recovering from destructive environmental exploitation in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Caribbean.
The key interests of students and faculty:
- Asset-based community development
- Capacity building
- Community based conservation and resource management
- Corporate globalization
- Environmental equity
- Environmental Youth Leadership
- Economic re-localization
- Environmental and cultural resilience
- Energy and the international Transition movement
- Faith-based activism
- Fair trade
- Food security, food justice and food sovereignty
- Grassroots organizing
- Indigenous rights
- Microenterprise
- Mining and quarrying
- Non-violent direct action
- Participatory approaches to environmental education
- Resource management
- Restorative justice
- Social movement history
- Urban environmental education
- Waste and wastewater management
