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2024-11-12

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2024): Thematic Issue: Water as Conflict and Water as Commons

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Water is Life:

Teaching Climate in the Classroom

Danielle Haque

Minnesota State University Mankato

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24926/cle.v2i2.6359

Keywords: affective ecologies, decoloniality, environmental racism, empathy

Abstract

What does it mean for a classroom of college students in Minnesota to read these words? How can they contemplate the idea that water is life, considering both their Dakota neighbors in Standing Rock and the people of Gaza? This essay is a reflection on how I use water in my Minnesota State University undergraduate humanities courses to teach about climate change as the defining crisis of our moment, and its emergence from environmental racism, colonialism, and inequality.

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