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Critical Ecology Lab is a queer, BIPOC, immigrant-led nonprofit research lab established by global change ecologist Dr. Suzanne Pierre. Our team is developing a framework for critical ecology, an emerging area of environmental science which quantitatively relates historical and contemporary extractive and oppressive social systems and processes to their ecological and biogeochemical corollaries. We employ theory and methods from ecosystems ecology, biogeosciences, archaeology, critical theory, political ecology, ethnic studies, and other disciplines to investigate systems of alienation that propel unsustainable environmental change and human inequality. In tandem with research, we work to change the way that researchers conduct science while critiquing the inherent ways in which traditional academic research continues to support oppressive and extractive societies. |
"[...]racism, the movement of global capital, and the history of colonialism are as fundamental as the hydrologic cycle, atmospheric circulation, and plate tectonics." |
Our Mission
Critical Ecology Lab is a space to investigate and explain the ways that the natural world, from soils to the atmosphere, has been shaped by the ideas of racial and cultural supremacy, natural resource exploitation, and social exclusion.
The Lab is also an experiment in world-building: Can a scientific research team also be a hub for social justice advocacy, developing capacity for compassion, scheming futurisms, and healing the trauma of marginalization? Learn more. |
Our Research
The Lab conducts collaborative, multidisciplinary environmental research. With our partner scholars, affiliated students, and community organizations, we develop new approaches to asking ecological questions from a sociocritical lens.
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The Critical Ecology Lab is a fiscally sponsored 501(c)3 nonprofit project of Inquiring Systems, Inc.
The Critical Ecology Lab is a fiscally sponsored 501(c)3 nonprofit project of Inquiring Systems, Inc.