[Sehefac] Jade's book is excerpted in the LA Times with an article about UCR students!!

[Michelle Raheja]

Congratulations, Jade!  This is fantastic news!  I'm teaching a chapter
from your book this quarter :)

Best,
Michelle

On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 10:33 AM Farah Godrej via Sehefac <
sehefac at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:

> Congratulations Jade!!  Such well-deserved recognition for your amazing
> work!
>
> Farah Godrej <https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/farahgodrej>
> Professor
> Department of Political Science
> University of California, Riverside
> (she/her/hers)
>
> Author of Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State
> <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/freedom-inside-9780190070090?cc=us&lang=en&> (Oxford University
> Press, 2022), winner of the 2023 Charles Taylor Book Award
> <https://connect.apsanet.org/interpretationandmethod/the-charles-taylor-book-award/>;
> honorable mentions for 2023 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award
> <https://publishers.org/news/association-of-american-publishers-announces-finalists-and-category-winners-for-2023-prose-awards/>
>  and 2023
> <https://connect.apsanet.org/interpretationandmethod/wp-content/uploads/sites/60/2023/08/2023-LAF-BookAward-HonMention-Citation.pdf>Lee
> Ann Fujii Award for Innovation in the Interpretive Study of Political
> Violence
> <https://connect.apsanet.org/interpretationandmethod/lee-ann-fujii-award-for-innovation-in-the-interpretive-study-of-political-violence/>
>
> Co-Founding Director, UCR LIFTED <https://education.ucr.edu/ucr-lifted> prison
> BA program
>
> Personal Zoom Room <https://ucr.zoom.us/j/5399165858>
>
>
> On Sep 11, 2024, at 10:17 AM, Dana Simmons via Sehefac <
> sehefac at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear SEHE affiliates,
> I'm thrilled to share that Jade's book was excerpted in the LA Times this
> morning, alongside a lovely article that speaks to some of the core issues
> that she raises. This is such a timely appearance, as the wildfires remind
> us again how tenuous our relation is to the land (and recall the scene that
> opens Jade's book, watching fires creep closer to her neighborhood).
>
> [image: 75.jpeg]
>
> 'It's almost shameful to want to have children'
> <https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-09-11/climate-anxiety-and-the-kid-question>
> latimes.com
> <https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-09-11/climate-anxiety-and-the-kid-question>
>
> <https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-09-11/climate-anxiety-and-the-kid-question>
>
>
> The essay, by Times writer Rosana Xia, describes the powerful moment when
> discussion about climate anxiety exploded in Jade's class, shifting her
> perception of this issue and opening the research that led to the book. Xia
> profiles UCR students and alums who are doing climate justice work in
> Southern California.
> “'For me, this work is a matter of survival', said Kevin J. Patel, who
> grew up in South L.A. and has been fighting for climate justice since he
> was 11. ...'It’s not about what I need, it’s about what my community
> needs,” he said. “There is joy in caring for one another. There is joy in
> coming together to fight for a future that we believe in.'"
>
>
> [image: 75.jpeg]
>
> To fix climate anxiety (and also climate change), we first have to fix
> individualism
> <https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-09-11/climate-anxiety-essay>
> latimes.com
> <https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-09-11/climate-anxiety-essay>
>
> <https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-09-11/climate-anxiety-essay>
>
> Congratulations, Jade!
> Dana
> --
> Dana Simmons
> Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Society, Environment and
> Health Equity
> Cooperating Faculty, Department of History
> University of California, Riverside
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