Major

Environmental Science

Anticipated Graduation Year

2023

Access Type

Open Access

Abstract

Extreme climatic changes are growing increasingly present in Chicagoans’ lives, including at Loyola University Chicago in the Rogers Park Neighborhood. From dorm residents to secretarial staff and research faculty, members of the Loyola Community report a multiplicity of hardships indicative of a syndemic Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) crisis. These failings are further contextualized in the wake of Cook County’s legacy of poor water management and infrastructure, particularly within the Calumet Region, grossly endangering and damaging marginalized communities. This thesis seeks to map geotrauma from WASH issues endured by the Loyola Community; serve as an intervention to institutional negligence within critical ambivalence theory and decolonial ethics; enforce university obligations of water security through on-campus wetland restoration.

Faculty Mentors & Instructors

Supported by The John Grant LUROP for Bioethics, Dr. Jennifer Parks and Dr. Thomas Derdak

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Healing Landscapes of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Traumas Through Wetland Restoration, Autoethnography and Field Philosophy

Extreme climatic changes are growing increasingly present in Chicagoans’ lives, including at Loyola University Chicago in the Rogers Park Neighborhood. From dorm residents to secretarial staff and research faculty, members of the Loyola Community report a multiplicity of hardships indicative of a syndemic Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) crisis. These failings are further contextualized in the wake of Cook County’s legacy of poor water management and infrastructure, particularly within the Calumet Region, grossly endangering and damaging marginalized communities. This thesis seeks to map geotrauma from WASH issues endured by the Loyola Community; serve as an intervention to institutional negligence within critical ambivalence theory and decolonial ethics; enforce university obligations of water security through on-campus wetland restoration.