Mark Ortiz, PhD

Mark Ortiz, PhDMark Ortiz, PhDMark Ortiz, PhDMark Ortiz, PhD
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Mark Ortiz, PhD

Mark Ortiz, PhDMark Ortiz, PhDMark Ortiz, PhD
  • Home
  • Research
    • Intergen Politics
    • Students & Sustainability
    • Expanding the Story
    • CJ & EJ in the U.S. South
    • The GYSRL
    • Climate Influence(rs)
  • Writing
  • Teaching
  • Speaking
  • News
  • Music


    Climate & Environmental Justice in the U.S. South

    Describing, Imagining, and Co-Designing Climate Just Futures in the U.S. South


    This current body of work in development aims to describe, imagine, and co-design climate justice futures in and from the U.S. South using community-based research approaches, storytelling, memoir, interviews, oral histories, poetic inquiry, and youth participatory action research methods. Growing up in Birmingham, AL and finishing my PhD in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, most of my life has been lived in the U.S. South. Stories of climate and environmental justice work across the region abound and intersect with the complicated industrial, environmental, labor, and cultural histories that shape Southern lives and landscapes. One ambition of this project is to support in documenting and archiving these stories, drawing lessons from them, and building models of CJ futures in the region that honor and draw on this intergenerational work.


    This work is primarily taking place in Birmingham, Alabama (in collaboration with the Institute for Human Rights at the University of Alabama at Birmingham) and North Carolina (in partnership with the North Carolina Climate Justice Collective). We have recently been awarded a Level 1 Seed Grant from the Penn State Social Science Research Institute for our pilot research in Birmingham, entitled “Characterizing Community-Based Environmental and Climate Resilience Efforts in the Deep South through Visual Participatory Methods and Narrative Interviews: A Pilot Study in Birmingham, Alabama." Stay tuned for further information and updates on this work. 



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