jah elyse sayers

Student Fellow

jah elyse sayers (they/them) directs their creative energy toward liberatory placemaking through research, writing, artmaking, teaching, and building. They are a PhD candidate in Environmental Psychology, a sub-area of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Participating Years

2024–2025

Anti-Capitalist Environmentalism

The existential problems of the planet are complex. Given capitalism’s obsessive growth primed by, for instance, land-grabbing, extractivism, social and economic hierarchies, and war, capitalist environmentalism leans heavily on tweaking armageddon to maintain its hold on futurity for the planet.