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Indigenous Resistance, Anti-Colonial Politics, and Environmental Justice

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Center for Advanced Study; Departments of American Indian Studies, Gender & Women's Studies, and Asian American Studies
Location
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Date
Mar 3, 2020   4:00 - 5:30 pm  
Contact
Naomi Paik
E-Mail
anpaik@illinois.edu
Views
30
Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

Despite the tidal wave of interest in Indigenous knowledge(s) about the environment, limited attempts have theorized how conquest, occupation, and persistent colonial violence necessarily factor into debates over environmental crisis. How can environmental disaster be positioned as a form of colonial violence interwoven with dispossession? What are the political modalities through which Indigenous peoples resist the colonial violence of environmental devastation? What can be learned about a linked international environmental justice movement? The talk by Jaskiran Dhillon coalesces around Indigenous-led environmental struggle in North America while also gesturing toward an unfolding multi-sited ethnographic project that traces environmental resistance for Indigenous peoples across the globe.

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