WG3 Online Research Seminar: Environmental Racism in Urban Interventions
Prof. Marta Padovan-Özdemir

14th April 2026, 3.30-5.30 pm CET

It is well documented that the impact of the climate crisis is racially uneven. Such environmental injustices also seem to sediment and define urban interventions in the Global North imposing new forms of racialization. This seminar addresses and discusses recent developments in Denmark, where more than two decades of so-called “ghetto” policies have defined a particular racial geography of welfare, securitization, and sustainable transitioning.
The seminar will begin with two presentations (Prof. Marta Padovan-Özdemir and MA student and activist, Sarah Zarhdani) followed by a mutual discussion with the seminar participants. The aim is to create a co-thinking space bridging academia and activism in the quest to understand and disentangle the colonial legacies in environmental injustices as they play out in urban interventions on Danish soil.