Join the ES&LSA and TRN312: Ethics, Society, and Law of Sustainability in Welcoming Dayna Nadine Scott (LLM).
Where: Via Zoom (the link will be emailed to you one day prior to the event)
When: Wednesday March 9th, 2022 @ 4:10pm-6:00pm EST
A Feminist Political Economy of Ethics and Law: Case of Toxics and Gender
Contemporary exposures to toxics flow from extractive logics endemic to capitalism, but they cannot be conceived as just emissions trailing in the wake of extractive industries. Instead we must recognize the exposures are “built-into” those systems and see that they are fuelled by the same hierarchies – of gender, race, Indigeneity etc, that drive accumulation. To overcome these dynamics, I argue that we need to sharpen our analytics – and expand our ethics.
Professor Dayna Nadine Scott joined Osgoode’s faculty in 2006 and is cross-appointed with the Faculty of Environmental Studies. Professor Scott’s teaching is in administrative law, environmental law and justice, risk regulation, and international environmental governance. She recently completed a SSHRC-funded research project in partnership with environmental justice activists from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, near Sarnia`s Chemical Valley, which tackled the issue of chronic pollution on an Ontario reserve. The project applied a critical, feminist perspective to the examination of law’s treatment of the risks of long-term, low-dose exposures to pollutants.
Professor Scott’s publications cover topics from environmental justice activism and experiential knowledge, to contested resource extraction, to the challenges posed for law and environmental health by the emerging endocrine disruption thesis. She is interested in questions of environmental regulation and governance from an interdisciplinary perspective, especially work that interrogates the interaction between local and global modes of governing and ways of knowing.
She is the editor of Our Chemical Selves: Gender, Toxics and Environmental Health (UBC Press, 2015) and the past Director of the National Network on Environments and Women's Health.
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