Keyword: Indigenousrights
- contributionSimon Turner, Michelle Murphy, Lesley J. F. Green
Environmental Markers to Chemical Violence
How do we connect pollutant markers demarcating the Anthropocene with the exploitative and unequal anthropogenic-economic-industrial systems that created them?
Mapping, Consensus Building, Experiment, Engagement, Pollution, Toxicity, Violence, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice, Settler Colonialism
- projectFernando Silva e Silva, Alyne Costa, André Araujo, Anelise De Carli
Anthropocene Campus Brazil
An interdisciplinary program that took place in November 2022 and brought together scientists, humanities researchers, activists, and community leaders.
Film, Engagement, Conversation, Local knowledge, Knowledge production, Knowledge infrastructure, Indigenous Rights, Species
- contributionJulian Charrière, Nadim Samman
As We Used to Float
Julian Charrière and Nadim Samman take us on a dive into Bikini Atoll to tell the story of the post-atomic ghostlands and the never-to-end heritage of contamination in the blasted reefs.
Field Work, Affect, Degradation, Disaster, Indigenous Rights, Ocean, Radioactivity
- contributionNishant Shah, Felipe Castelblanco
A Mirage Mirror
Artist Felipe Castelblanco and researcher Nishant Shah propose that communication must be freed from its desire for intelligibility and claims to knowledge.
Communicating, Conversation, Indigenous Rights, Media, Technosphere, Human-environment relations
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Many Waters: A Minnesota Biennial
A look into some of the imaginative and dedicated ways that artists and culture bearers from across the state of Minnesota are engaging with water.
Engagement, Conversation, Field Study, Indigenous Rights, Settler Colonialism, Water, Ecology, Wisdom, Human-environment relations
- contributionTemporary continent.
Seeding Sovereignty
A collage of recorded conversations about the systems of structural racism and land-use brought about by settler colonialism in the Midwest.
Field Work, Conversation, Agriculture, Indigenous Rights, Settler Colonialism, Economy, Environmental Justice, Inequality, Future, Colonialism, Whiteness
- projectDerek Hoeferlin, Amber Ginsburg, Claire Pentecost, Kayla Anderson, Sara Black, Sarah Lewison, Beate Geissler, Oliver Sann, Michael Swierz, Monica Moses Haller, Jeremy Bolen, Brian Holmes, Brian Kirkbride, Margarida Mendes, John Kim, Tia-Simone Gardner, Andrea Carlson, Jenny Schmid, Marlena Novak, Jay Alan Yim, Joslyn Willauer, Isabelle Carbonell, Jennifer Colten, Abbéy Odunlami, Anna van Voorhis, Monique Verdin, Sarah Kanouse, Ryan Griffis, Joe Underhill, Corinne Teed, Heather Parrish
The Current: Mississippi. An Anthropocene River
The installation The Current presented field studies by artists, scholars, and activists who were involved in the AC project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River.
Archiving, Case Study, Communicating, Conversation, Field Study, Film, Mapping, Sensing, Storytelling, Sound, Water, Carbon, Care, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights, Extraction, Race, Infrastructure
- contributionImani Jacqueline Brown, Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani, Adania Shibli
Histories of Disintegration
Histories can often be told through the changes in a landscape; about what has changed and come to form, but most of all, what is excluded altogether.
Case Study, Film, Conversation, Climate change, History, Indigenous Rights
- contributionNathan Jessee, Elder Rosina Philippe, Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar, Theresa Dardar, Traditional Chief Albert Naquin, Chantel Comardelle
Resisting the Oblivion of Eco-Colonialism
Nathan Jessee speaks with Louisiana Gulf Coast Tribal leaders about the social and environmental threats they face and their efforts to ensure social and ecological futures.
Engagement, Conversation, Indigenous Rights, Extraction, Climate change, Settler Colonialism, Water, Disaster
- contributionSarah Lewison
Measuring Loss
In response to the complicated entanglements of property claims in the Mississippi Delta, Sarah Lewison advocates for witnessing injustice as a way of preparing for repair.
Conversation, Engagement, Reflection, Field Study, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Agency, Architecture, Commodities, Capitalism, Environmental Justice, Extraction, History, Indigenous Rights, Inequality, Race, Slavery
- contributionNicholas Brown, Sarah Kanouse, Ryan Griffis
Blackhawk Park Is Indigenous Land (Beyond Acknowledgment)
How does the legacy of settler colonialism affect and seep into the present? A reflection at Blackhawk Park.
Reflection, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Violence, Agency
- projectCorinne Teed
Amongst Relatives
We are permeable beings and perpetually affected by our changing ecosystems. This field guide and accompanying exercises guide us into an embodied present.
Conversation, Field Work, Settler Colonialism, Agriculture, Indigenous Rights
- projectNicholas Brown, Rozalinda Borcilă
Meskonsing-Kansan
Considering Indigenous land and the (colonial) Anthropocene in the territory between the Wisconsin and Kansas rivers and glaciations.
Field Work, Indigenous Rights, Glaciation, Colonialism
- contributionIan Gray
Outrunning the Anthropocene?
Ian Gray on the effects of coastal land loss for communities such as the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe.
Infrastructure, Resilience, Indigenous Rights, Local knowledge, Naturecultures
- contributionShanai Matteson
Riverine
What does it mean to be “riverine”? A collage by artist, writer, and activist Shanai Matteson
Storytelling, Reflection, History, Water, Wisdom, Violence, Inequality, Indigenous Rights, Habits, Aesthetics
- contributionRoopali Phadke
Fort Snelling's Deep Time Stories
How can we reach a deeper understanding of the human and non-human histories of the landscapes we are familiar with? A deep time reading of Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
Reflection, History, Human-environment relations, Anthropos, Indigenous Rights
- contributionAndrea Carlson
The Mississippi River is the Opposite of the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene is a loaded term. In this essay, artist Andrea Carlson reflects on the ideological blindspots of the concept.
Reflection, Indigenous Rights, Complexity, History, Human-environment relations
- contributionBruce Braun
Meeker Dam
Bruce Braun turns to the underwater ruins of Meeker Dam to look into the histories and continuities of settler colonialism.
Reflection, History, Indigenous Rights, Settler Colonialism, Industrialization
- contributionSarah Kanouse, Nicholas Brown
Chi-Nations Youth Council
In this short film, Adrian Pochel, one of the lead organizers of the Chi-Nations Youth Council talks through the group’s work promoting Indigenous rights in the city of Chicago.
Film, Case Study, Reflection, Indigenous Rights, Agency, Care, Engagement, Equality, History, Inequality, Life, Network
- contributionTemporary continent., Sarah Kanouse
Maa Wákąčąk: Sacred Earth in the Anthropocene
Sarah Kanouse recounts Maa Wákąčąk’s histories of conservation and conquest are anything but “past,” and continue to overlap and exert anthropocenic influence on this sacred earth.
Field Work, Conversation, Engagement, Complexity, Ecology, Extraction, Indigenous Rights, Waste
- contributionLouise Carver, Temporary continent.
Lands, Legitimacy, and Lines of Trust
How lines of trust—and their ruptures—shape the affective and physical dimensions of both land and territory.
Field Work, Engagement, Conversation, History, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Storytelling, Reflection, Field Work, Intervention, Engagement, Conversation, Capitalism, Carbon, Care, Degradation, Energy, Engagement, Future, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Oil, Expanded field, Confluence
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Kickapoo Valley Reserve, Wisconsin, USA
Field Work, Mapping, Storytelling, Anthropology, Glaciation, Indigenous Rights, History, Naturecultures, Landscape, Local knowledge, Spatial, Memory, Ritual
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Anthropos, Architecture, Deep time, Ecology, Engineering, Extinction, Infrastructure, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Dakota, Fieldstation, Colonialism, Temporary Continent, 2019, Andrea Carlson
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Field Work, Life, Local knowledge, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, License, Law, Transport, Mobility
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Lower Rice Lake, Minnesota, USA
Storytelling, Field Work, Agriculture, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Rice, Headwaters
- Field Noteunderhil
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Modeling, Local knowledge, Indigenous Rights, Cosmologies, River journey, Dakota
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Field Station 2 | Toward Ecological Sovereignty
The seminar concludes in Saukenuk. The environmental transformations wrought by settlement have not exterminated Indigenous political and ecological practices, which have persisted and adapted to what Kyle Powys White calls the “post-apocalyptic conditions of the present.”
Case Study, Reflection, Storytelling, History, Local knowledge, Agriculture, Agency, Ecology, Human-environment relations, Inequality, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice
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Field Station 2 | Extractive Infrastructures and Imaginaries
The fourth day of the seminar travels from Wisconsin to Illinois to examine the interplay of displacement, immigration, and engineering in producing the landscapes of extractive agriculture celebrated in the racialized mythology of the American “heartland.”
Case Study, Storytelling, Energy, Commodities, Infrastructure, Mining, Imaginary, Carbon, Pollution, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice
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Field Station 2 | Unsettling Anthropocene Landscapes
Opening day of the traveling seminar Over the Levee, Under the Plow, which situates the escalating environmental crisis of the Anthropocene Midwest within settler colonial histories and narratives.
Case Study, Reflection, Storytelling, History, Local knowledge, Landscape, Violence, Agriculture, Agency, Climate change, Care, Knowledge infrastructure, Indigenous Rights, Settler Colonialism
- projectNicholas Brown, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse
Over the Levee, Under the Plow
A traveling seminar on the relations between settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental concerns in the Upper Midwest territory.
Case Study, Field Study, Storytelling, History, Agriculture, Violence, Capitalism, Landscape, Settler Colonialism, Race, Agency, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights
- projectNicholas Brown, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse
Field Station 2: Anthropocene Drift
What is the relation between large-scale agriculture and biome change? An examination of the infrastructure of the monocrop industry in the Midwestern United States.
Field Study, Field Work, Agriculture, Landscape, Water, Capitalism, Commodities, Anthropology, Local knowledge, Ecology, History, Violence, Sustainability, Topography, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice
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1948 Unbound
The year 1948 serves as an aperture through which we can rethink the history of the now; the decisive moment when the heap of fragments left by the fury of two world wars began to reassemble into new forms of technological, scientific, and cultural order that inform our contemporary situation.
Conversation, Reflection, Film, Intervention, Consensus Building, Storytelling, Teaching, Agency, Agriculture, Big data, Calculation, Complexity, Cybernetics, Future, Governance, Infrastructure, Knowledge transformation, Indigenous Rights, Modernity, Risk, Scenario, Speculative, Technoscience, Technosphere, Waste, Engineering, Metabolism
- contributionNavjot Altaf Mohamedi
Bastar Diary
A relfection on the knowledge of interconnectedness of the indigenous Muria Gond community.
Reflection, Mining, Local knowledge, Naturecultures, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Indigenous Rights
