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“How do we build stewardship systems capable of continuity, accountability, collaboration, and long-horizon ecological care?” — Such a great question! And an essential matter. The kind of institutional fragmentation you’re talking about becomes toxic, as it were, when different institutions work at cross-purposes, fall into arrangements that are highly unequal and exploitative, or are put in the position of competing for resources with potential partners and collaborators. So what does it take, structurally and systemically, to put conditions into place for effective allyship and coalition-building? This is one of the themes that Shashawnda Campbell (SBCLT) and I write about in this recent dialogue of ours about environmental justice collaborations in Baltimore, which could be a relevant read:
https://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/teaching-and-organizing-for-environmental-justice-in-baltimore
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Teaching and Organizing for Environmental Justice in Baltimore
Baltimore’s residents of color are twice as likely as white residents to develop cancer from toxic exposure, and suffer some of the highest asthm...