In this episode, Koki interviews Laura Pulido, Collins Chair and Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon, who studies race, environmental justice, and cultural memory. They discuss the intersection of racial and climate denialism, and how these realms of politics, understanding, and identity buttress one another. Laura and Koki dig into some of the key insights from Pulido's work, an invaluable vocabulary with which to parse the salience of emotion, identity, and belonging in crystallizing and simultaneously mobilizing oppressive political ideologies and practice in the face of environmental injustice. 

EPISODE RESOURCES

• The “Business-as-Usual” of Right-Wing Climate Realism by Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Political Research Associates, 2024.
• Cultural Memory, White Innocence, and United States Territory: The 2022 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture by Laura Pulido, Urban Geography, 2023. 
• Distorting the Climate Crisis: Far Right Environmentalism with Alex Amend, Inform Your Resistance Podcast, 2023.
• Blood and Vanishing Topsoil American Ecofascism Past, Present, and in the Coming Climate Crisis by Alex Amend, Political Research Associates, 2020.
• From White Privilege to White Supremacy: An Illustrated Interview with Laura Pulido by Danya Al-Saleh & Heather Rosenfeld, Edge Effects, 2016. 
• Wildfire Rumors and Denial in the Trump Era by Laura Pulido in Political Ecologies of the Far Right: Fanning the Flames, 2024. 
• Environmental Deregulation, Spectacular Racism, and White Nationalism in the Trump Era by Laura Pulido, Tianna Bruno, Cristina Faiver-Serna, & Cassandra Galentinein Environmental Governance in a Populist/Authoritarian Era, 2020.
• Reimagining ‘Justice’ in Environmental Justice: Radical Ecologies, Decolonial Thought, and the Black Radical Tradition by Laura Pulido and Juan De Lara, Environment & Planning E: Nature & Space, 2018.
• Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity by Daniel Martinez HoSang & Joseph E. Lowndes, UMN Press, 2019.
• Living in Denial Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life by Kari Marie Norgaard, MIT Press, 2011.

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Climate Denial, Climate Denialism, Environmental Justice, Environmental Racism, Historic Sites, Memorialization, Memorials, Oregon, Racial Denial, Racial Denialism, Rural Community, Rural-Identified Community, Surplus of White Nationalism, White Nation, White Nationalism, Wildfires