Field Station 5 | Troubling Ecology: Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism
Broadcasting live from Field Station #5 is a podcast series that tells the tale of forms of resistance in the Mississippi Delta (what), on topics relating to the theme of land & water. It’s intended for people (who) want to hear about the region in a creative, scholarly, yet wildly approachable intimate manner. It’s the story of a region by those who inhabit the region (why). Listeners feel a connection to the podcast episodes and the people in them. Broadcasting live from Field Station #5 is a podcast series that tells the tale of forms of resistance in the Mississippi Delta (what), on topics relating to the theme of land & water. It’s intended for people (who) want to hear about the region in a creative, scholarly, yet wildly approachable manner. It’s the story of a region by those who inhabit the region.
- Wednesday, Sep 25, 2019Memphis, TN | Jackson, MS | New Orleans, LA
Abbéy talks with Dr. Chelsea Frazier (Dept. English, Cornell) about the importance of Black feminism’s political and artistic engagements with environmentalism. From a carefully curated archive of film, twentieth and twenty-first-century literature, and Black visual culture, Dr. Frazier explains how Black femme subjects and their artistic production literally and figuratively re-engineer popular understandings of ecology and reframe art historical narratives around race and materialism.
