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This module offers participants a unique opportunity to be actively engaged in an action-learning alliance, where knowledge and action are co-produced in collaboration with partner organisations and local communities in an urban region of the Global South. This alliance enables learners to integrate and apply the knowledge and skills developed throughout the rest of the programme and to develop the professional capacities that self-reflective and forward-looking practitioners require when working towards environmentally just transformations in challenging and complex contexts.ÌýÌý

The module runs over three terms and culminates with an overseas practice engagement in the third term. The pedagogic approach places emphasis on co-learning as an embedded and relational process and as a temporal and spatialised practice. The action-learning alliance allows learners to acquire first-hand experience through the exploration of specific urban-regions, examining the manifestation and struggles for environmental justice under real circumstances, and participating in the development of strategies to counteract injustices.Ìý

Putting an environmental justice and feminist political ecology perspective into practice, during each term, the module exposes participants to different modes of comparative analysis and action. Throughout Term I, participants gain analytical, diagnostic and communication skills through a desktop study. Term II and III provide the opportunity to further develop an action-research methodological and planning skills and to apply acquired capacities for diagnosis, dialogue, advocacy, and action planning in specific contexts. Term III entails primary data collection in collaboration with overseas partners, filling information gaps, refining strategies, communicating findings, and producing impactful outputs.

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Teaching delivery:

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In Terms I and II, this module comprises weekly lectures, seminar presentations, group discussions, and tutorials. In Term III, the overseas practice engagement involves fieldwork, panel discussions, tutorials and presentations. In addition to individual assessments, the module relies on group work to undertake research and produce group outputs for assessment.

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Module Objectives:

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This module aims to provide participants with the following learning outcomes:Ìý

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• An in-depth understanding and experience of the intellectual, practical, and ethical questions underpinning any attempt to deal with environmental (in)justices – their roots and manifestations in and across urban-regions in the Global South.ÌýÌý

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• The ability to understand the interests, relations and practices of different institutions, organisations, and ordinary citizens in the socio-environmental processes that shape everyday life and how urban- regions are planned, managed, and ran.Ìý

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• The capacity to plan and undertake research and to facilitate, develop and communicate strategic interventions that are environmentally sustainable and just; as well as sensitive to the diversity of conditions and experiences that shape environmental injustices across intersections of class, gender, age, race, ability, and place.Ìý

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• Knowledge of and practical experience in the application of strategic techniques and skills for spatial diagnosis, participatory mapping, scenario and action planning; and a range of transferable skills and tools related to professional and impactful communication.Ìý

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