| Years |
Institution |
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| Education: |
1999 - present |
Ph.D candidate, University of California, Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management "Multiracial and multiethnic coalitions in scaling up environmental politics: the US environmental justice movement" |
| 1997 - 1999 |
M.A., Princeton University Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
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| 1991 - 1995 |
B.Sc., Duke University Biology |
Publications:
Turner, Robin Lanette and Diana Pei Wu. 2002. Environmental Justice and Environmental Racism: An Annotated Bibliography with General Overview, focusing on the U.S. Literature, 1996-2002. Berkeley, CA, Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics, Institute for International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. 134 pp. Available for free download at http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/EnvirPol/Bib/B07-TurnerWu.pdf
Wu, Diana Pei, Mathew Henn, David Quist, Matteo Garbelotto and Ignacio Chapela. 2000. From the Roots: An Underground Perspective on Traditional Agriculture, Forest Regeneration and Conservation. In Leigh, M (ed). Borneo 2000: Environment, Conservation and Land (v.3). Kuching, Sarawak, 346-357.Working Groups:
Graduate Student Working Group on Race, Racialization and Racism in Environmental Studies. Co-founder, Fall 2002 to present. Loosely, this is a collective of graduate students who went to the People of Color Environmental Leadereship Summit in October of 2002, in Washington D.C. We are interested in environmental justice, as a movement, and as an analytical framework..
Racialized Environments, Naturalized Difference. Co-founder and facilitator. 2002 to present. Funded by the Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics. Interdisciplinary graduate working group on theoretical issues around race and nature, and a workshop for graduate students and community members to improve works around environmental justice. We meet once or twice a month, sometimes more if necessary. Members include or have included students from ESPM, ERG, Anthropology, History, Geography, City and Regional Planning and Political Science as well as activist-scholars from outside UC.
Indigenous Mapping Working Group. Member. 2002. Theoretical and practical issues around mapping as a tactic in struggles over land and livelihood. Funded by the Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics.
Working Group on Indigenous Peoples, Forests and Trade. 1999 - 2000. Co-founder and facilitator. Theoretical issues at the nexus of conflict and synergy between WTO and international trade, indigenous land rights and forests and conservation.
Environmental Justice. ESPM 10. Feb 18, 2003. University of California, Berkeley.
Racism as an analytic in scientific research. ESPM 201A. November 19, 2002. University of California, Berkeley.
The role of technology in indigenous struggles over land and livelihood in Sarawak, Malaysia. Human Rights Center Summer Fellows Symposium. October 2001.
Indigenous struggles over land and livelihood in Sarawak, Malaysia. ESPM 168. Spring 2001. University of California, Berkeley.
Penn-Princeton Retreat. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University. Spring 1999. "The Tragedy of Commons Thinking: When is the Tragedy of the Commons the wrong model for conservation?"
Princeton University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Fall 1998. "Succession after fire in Brazilian cerrado."
Posters:
Center for Tropical Forest Science, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. May 31 to June 2, 2000. Singapore. "From the Roots: A belowground perspective on traditional agriculture, forest regeneration and conservation."
| Language |
Spoken |
Reading |
Written |
| Spanish |
Fluent |
Fluent |
Fluent |
| Portuguese |
Advanced |
Near Fluent |
Near Fluent |
| Mandarin Chinese |
Advanced/Near fluent |
Advanced |
Advanced |
| French |
Advanced |
Advanced |
Advanced |