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

[Bronwyn Leebaw]

Wow! Fantastic news!!

On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 11:09 AM Michelle Raheja via Sehefac <
sehefac at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:

> 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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