Biopolitics and Beyond: New Directions in Indigenous Studies, lecture and panel discussion

Arts Building W-215 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada

From climate change, to pipeline protests and environmental justice movements, to conceptualizations of kinship with living and non-living beings, emerging scholarship from Indigenous Studies is broadening visions of how to live in the twenty-first century. This keynote lecture and panel discussion features scholars whose work is pushing the boundaries of science and technology studies through questions such as, how have [...]

Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming: #IdleNoMore, #BlackLivesMatter, and #NoDAPL

Strong Hall 1621 Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN, United States

Abstract: In this talk, I examine the caretaking of relations that I see embodied in several recent social movements led by women, two-spirit, and queer people. #IdleNoMore, #NoDAPL, and #BlackLivesMatter are commonly understood as environmental and/or social justice/anti-racist movements that call settler-colonial states, including the US and Canada, to make good on their treaty promises or [...]