“You don’t necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege," writes Roxanne Gay in Bad Feminist. What does it mean to acknowledge our privilege? What will happen once we do? Those are the questions we asked Professor Stephen Scharper in an interview. Acknowledging our privilege may be the first step in becoming both self-aware and understanding of the lived experiences of others.
Dr. Stephen Bede Scharper is a professor, author, editor, columnist, and public scholar with a special focus on social justice, sustainability, and the environment.
Currently Director of the Integrated Sustainability Initiative at Trinity College, he is also associate professor at the School of the Environment and the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, as well as the Department of Anthropology (UTM). He also serves as adjunct professor at the Toronto School of Theology and is a Senior Fellow at Massey College.
Dr. Scharper’s research and teaching are in the areas of environmental ethics, worldviews and ecology, religion and ecology, liberation theology, sustainability ethics, as well as nature and the city. His book, For Earth's Sake: Toward a Compassionate Ecology (Novalis), explores the notion of how we are being called to develop a loving relationship with the natural world in light of contemporary ecological challenges.
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