About this Event
Mapping the Intersection of Race and Nature in Challenging Times
Join us in Mississauga for the inaugural Race and Nature Symposium, the first event of its kind in Canada.
The symposium examines how race shapes the ways nature is perceived, accessed, and experienced. Race-based inequities continue to influence who can access, control, and manage natural spaces, and whose knowledge is recognised and valued. Canada is a multi-racial society, but access to nature does not reflect that.
Childhood access shapes how people relate to nature for life. About a third of children and youth in Canada are racialised, Black, Indigenous, or first- or second-generation immigrants; in Toronto, roughly half. When they are alienated from nature or rarely see themselves in it, caring for and protecting it becomes that much harder.
This symposium engages those challenges directly, centering the voices and lived experiences of Black and other racialised communities.
Sub-themes: K-12 education, food, art, health, climate and social justice, climate mitigation, sustainability, Indigenous relations, funding.
For: scholars, educators, practitioners, community leaders, and anyone interested.
Venue: Grand Hall, Maanjiwe Nendamowinan Building, 1535 Outer Cir, Mississauga, ON
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1535 Outer Cir, 1535 Outer Circle, Mississauga, Canada
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