Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming: #IdleNoMore, #BlackLivesMatter, and #NoDAPL
Strong Hall 1621 Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN, United StatesAbstract: 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 [...]
Futures of Symbiotic Assemblages: Multi-naturalism, Monoculture Resistance and “The Permanent Decolonization of Thought”
Wiesner Building e15-001, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn the age of post-truth, peak oil, alternative facts, and the alternative right, it has never been more urgent to defend the need for the coexistence of other, alternative vantage points – of species, of time, of traditions, of beings.
Indigenous Science, Technology, and Society: Toward Sovereign Bodies and Sustainable Relations
2-250A&B, Enterprise Square 10230 Jasper Avenue, EdmontonPlease join us at the University of Alberta for a 2-day symposium addressing questions related to Indigenous peoples, techno-science, colonialism, and the environment. June 8-9, 2018, Enterprise Square, Edmonton, AB, Canada Indigenous Science, Technology, and Society: Toward Sovereign Bodies & Sustainable Relations will explore productive spaces to do science and develop technology in ways that undo colonial [...]
HUMANNATURE SERIES: AMERICAN DREAMING IS INDIGENOUS ELIMINATION
Hallstrom Theatre, Australian Museum 1 William St, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaJoin Kim TallBear as she considers the strange intersections between nature, nation, and the lives and deaths of Indigenous peoples in the USA.