Keyword: Settlercolonialism
- 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
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Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange 2022–
An expansive educational and research collaboration through the formation of five river hubs spanning the Mississippi River’s headwaters to the Gulf.
Engagement, Teaching, Storytelling, Sensing, Conversation, Communicating, Water, Settler Colonialism, Environmental Justice, Race, Extraction
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“Anthroposcenes:” Historicizing Colonial Landscapes and Seascapes
Talk by environmental historian Gregory T. Cushman—and roundtable discussion with Chamoru poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez and multispecies scholar Maya Kóvskaya.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Mapping, Species, Human-animal relations, Ecology, Settler Colonialism, Water, Capitalism, Landscape
- contributionMacarena Gómez-Barris
An Earth Being Platform
Macarena Gómez-Barris immerses herself in Earth’s archive of wreckage as a way of exploring what accountability might look like in the present.
Reflection, Communicating, Extraction, Settler Colonialism, Care, Capitalism, Violence
- projectFernando Silva e Silva, Grupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia das Práticas
Cosmic Conversations 2020
Six Brazilian researchers from different areas talk about ways of approaching the brutal effects of climate change.
Conversation, Reflection, Climate change, Ecology, Agriculture, Species, Environmental Justice, Settler Colonialism
- contributionKatrin Klingan, Soren Brothers, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Michelle Murphy, Catherine Tammaro, Mark Williams
Core Readings: Crawford Lake
How do different forms of societal organization and land use over the centuries affect the environment on local and planetary levels?
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Life, History, Human-environment relations, Landscape, Scale, Settler Colonialism, Knowledge production
- contributionJoe Underhill
On Translation and Agency on an Anastomosed River
Joe Underhill reflects on the political utility of the language used in academia and the public sphere, and how to translate deeper understandings of the Anthropocene.
Storytelling, Communicating, Conversation, Field Work, Water, Climate change, Environmental Justice, Local knowledge, Settler Colonialism
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OVERFLOW
The Chicago edition of an artist-run exhibition and retrospective that curates new and existing work related to the 2019 project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River. Hosted by the artistic research group Deep Time Chicago and conceived in collaboration with the Backward River Festival.
Field Study, Conversation, Engagement, Settler Colonialism, Urbanism, Sharing economy, Engineering, Violence, Water
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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
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OVERFLOW
An artist-run exhibition and retrospective that curates new and existing work related to the 2019 project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River. Gathers energy with an opening in Minneapolis before setting out on meanders further downstream.
Field Study, Conversation, Engagement, Settler Colonialism, Urbanism, Sharing economy, Engineering, Violence, Water
- projectTemporary continent., Jamie Allen, Louise Carver, Nina Jäger, Sarrita Hunn, James McAnally, Clémence Hallé, Anne-Sophie Milon, Duncan Evennou, Benoît Verjat
(un)mutable channels
Voices and atmospheres recorded along the length of the Mississippi River Valley, seeking out the political and spatialized through sound, music, and field recordings.
Archiving, Field Work, Conversation, Storytelling, Sound, Settler Colonialism, Pollution, Race, Water, Inequality, River journey
- contributionTemporary continent.
Changes Flowing from a Heart of America
Riots emerge from voices unheard—reflections on Martin Luther King Jr.’s dictum guide us to sites of uprising and industrial toxicity on Turtle Island, a.k.a. North America.
Field Work, Settler Colonialism, Water, History, Inequality, Spatial, Colonialism, River journey, Sound, Ritual
- 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
- contributionTemporary continent.
Fabled Headwaters of the Mee-zee-see-bee
Voices from the Mississippi Headwaters and Twin Cities share reflections on canoeing, protest and a 100-year history of the region.
Field Work, Conversation, Sound, Water, Settler Colonialism, Race, River journey, Headwaters
- contributionEllie Irons
Re-patterning with Kudzu: Reckoning in Search of Regeneration
Artist Ellie Irons documents her travels to Natchez, Mississippi, to meet the American kudzu plant on the contested terrain it has colonized.
Case Study, Storytelling, Species, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Settler Colonialism, Migration, Race
- contributionBabak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai, Katrin Hornek, Margarida Mendes
A Trace, a Breath
Using sensory work, artists explore how the effects of opium relate to colonialist and capitalist extraction, and convey a tale of industry and the Latvian geological landscape.
Reflection, Sound, Storytelling, Conversation, Capitalism, Settler Colonialism
- contributionBouba Touré, Raphaël Grisey
Xaraasi Xanne—Crossing Voices
Raphaël Grisey and Boube Touré chronicle the practices of a self-organized farming cooperative founded by former African migrant workers and activists in France in 1977.
Film, Engagement, Conversation, Migration, Settler Colonialism
- contributionJoe Underhill
A River Semester
Reporting live from the Mississippi River, travelers question how transforming the act of sensing might remake social, political and environmental relations?
Sensing, Field Work, Conversation, Climate change, Race, Settler Colonialism, Species, Capitalism
- contributionBernd M. Scherer, Jeremias Herberg, John Kim, Adania Shibli
An Anthropocene in Two Parts
The most challenging aspects of doing Anthropocene research require learning how local realities may inform broader global issues.
Conversation, Engagement, Settler Colonialism, Local knowledge, Capitalism, Race, Ecology
- contributionTia-Simone Gardner, Anna van Voorhis, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Beate Geissler, Oliver Sann
The Stories We Tell, the Images We Take
The first screening session of The Shape of a Practice featured film and performance that negotiates different research practices of archiving, and enacting embodied relationships.
Film, Conversation, Ecology, Migration, Settler Colonialism
- 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
- contributionBrian Holmes
Check My Pulse
Brian Holmes contemplates how our natural surroundings are suffused with the aftermath of colonial trauma and racial exploitation.
Field Work, Reflection, History, Epistemology, Settler Colonialism, Water
- contributionThomas Turnbull
A Suspended Archive
Field work undertaken on the Mississippi River dissolves the distinction between field and archive, evidencing not just attempts to alter the river’s flow, but similarly shifting cultural and political dynamics.
Field Work, Reflection, Human-environment relations, Settler Colonialism, History, Engineering, Water
- 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
- projectRyan Griffis
After Extraction
Combining creative nonfiction, montage-based images, and intuitive exercises to depict a partial history of extractive land use in Central Illinois.
Field Work, Settler Colonialism, Landscape
- projectSarah Kanouse
Beyond Property
Exploring the evolution of the “ownership model” of property as a technology of the colonial Anthropocene and considering alternative possibilities.
Field Work, Settler Colonialism, Human-environment relations
- 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
- 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
- contributionEleonora Rohland
Arriving in the Anthropocene: 300 years of adaptation to hurricanes and Mississippi floods in New Orleans
In keeping with many of the themes underpinning the Anthropocene River Campus, Eleonora Rohland explains how the question of adaptation so present post-Katrina has a much longer history in NOLA.
Case Study, Reflection, Adaptation, Urbanism, Engineering, Settler Colonialism
- 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
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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
- projectSarah Kanouse, Ryan Griffis, Dylan AT Miner, Jon Lund
Moraine/Terminal
Moraine/Terminal is a portable gathering, exhibition, and conversational space traveling alongside the mobile seminar Over the Levee, Under the Plow.
Field Work, Conversation, Storytelling, Engagement, Extraction, Settler Colonialism, Mining, Commodities
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Mapping, Intervention, Conversation, Settler Colonialism
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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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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Modeling, Field Work, Monitoring, Settler Colonialism, Overburden, Substances, Colonialism
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Lower Rice Lake, Minnesota, USA
Storytelling, Field Work, Agriculture, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Rice, Headwaters
- projectEllie Irons
Re-Patterning with Kudzu
The introduction of Kudzu into the American South has a storied history connecting rhetoric around migration and race with ecology.
Case Study, Storytelling, Species, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Settler Colonialism, Migration, Race
- contributionJohn Kim, Anya Kaplan-Seem
Land Acknowledgement Statement
Acknowledging the historical legacy of violence and the ongoing struggle resulting from colonialism is essential before research work begins in the Mississippi River region.
Reflection, Future, Violence, Care, Settler Colonialism
- contributionAmina Harper, Andrea Carlson
Anthropocene Refusal
The end of mankind is almost over: a short film on de-colonized futures.
Film, Experiment, Extinction, Race, Settler Colonialism, Imaginary, Speculative, Disaster, Anthropos, Future
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Field Station 1 | Sediment, Settlement, Sentiment: The Machinic River
Boat and walking tours, sound installations, workshops, panel discussions and film screenings around the Twin Cities region explore the Mississippi River as a space of intervention and experimentation.
Case Study, Storytelling, Reflection, Sound, Film, Infrastructure, Sedimentation, Water, History, Energy, Engineering, Aesthetics, Mechanosphere, Settler Colonialism, Inequality, Technosphere, Environmental Justice
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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
- projectMorgan Adamson, Ravi Agarwal, Bruce Braun, Shana M. griffin, Sarah Lewison, Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe, Grace Treffinger, Geneva Lebouf
Seminar: Claims/Property
This seminar engages the complicated entanglements of property claims that cut across the social, racial, and ecological landscapes of the Mississippi Delta, as they pertain to the Anthropocene.
Case Study, Teaching, Agency, History, Local knowledge, Agriculture, Commodities, Capitalism, Violence, Race, Settler Colonialism, Environmental Justice
- projectMorgan Adamson, Mark Borrello, Bruce Braun, Andrea Carlson, Jen Caruso, Jodi Enos-Berlage, Tia-Simone Gardner, Monica Moses Haller, Jane Hawley, Simi Kang, Anya Kaplan-Seem, John Kim, Boris Oicherman, Roopali Phadke, Max Ritts, Daniela Sandler, Jenny Schmid, Joe Underhill, Michael Winikoff, Simona Zappas
Field Station 1: Sediment, Settlement, Sentiment
The stretch of the Mississippi between Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa is marked both by its “natural” and “anthropogenic” origin.
Case Study, Field Work, Field Study, Storytelling, Sensing, Sedimentation, Local knowledge, Capitalism, Water, Engineering, Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Governance, Settler Colonialism, Violence, Environmental Justice
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Field Station 2 | Walking and Learning the Land
The third day of the seminar heads outdoors to explore the landscape on foot and to consider the ways of knowing that such embodied inquiry allows.
Case Study, Storytelling, Deep time, History, Equality, Agency, Landscape, Agriculture, Settler Colonialism, Knowledge infrastructure, Care
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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
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Field Station 2 | Restoring the Land
Day two of Over the Levee, Under the Plow takes place at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve. Examining Native and non-Native practices of conservation, this full day of seminars will work through the multivalent meanings of the term “restoration”.
Case Study, Storytelling, Reflection, History, Local knowledge, Agriculture, Landscape, Water, Resilience, Flood, Engineering, Metabolism, Biodiversity, Settler Colonialism, Glaciation, Environmental Justice
- 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
- contributionMargarida Mendes
Molecular Colonialism
Life cannot be coded. With unexpected genetic deviations, matter bites back at the colonizing hand of man.
Case Study, Reflection, Settler Colonialism, Biosphere, Agriculture, Economy, Data, Colonialism, Monsanto
- contributionJulian Henriques
A Caribbean Taste of Technology: Creolization and the Ways-of-Making of the Dancehall Sound System
Julian Henriques looks at the Jamaican reggae dancehall sound system to explore how this street technology has found creolizing ways to prevail in the neocolonial power struggle between popular culture and Jamaica’s ruling elite.
Case Study, Sound, Reflection, Technosphere, Settler Colonialism, Big data, History
- contributionOn Barak
The Shipworm and the Telegraph
How did a confluence of telegraphy, shipworms, colonialism, and imported Malay rubber transform the Arabic language into its modern form?
Reflection, Monitoring, Communicating, History, Technosphere, Settler Colonialism
- contributionLino Camprubí, Timothy Johnson
Deserts. The Geopolitics of Geology
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the growing dependency of national food supplies on fertilizer has turned phosphorus into a critical resource within geopolitical conflicts.
Storytelling, Agriculture, Settler Colonialism, History, Commodities
- contributionKaterina Teaiwa
Islands. Colonialism and Geopolitics
Understanding Australia’s phosphate mining history on Banaba puts into context its current controversial relationship with Nauru and Christmas Island.
Reflection, Engagement, Settler Colonialism, Migration, Commodities, History
- projectRana Dasgupta, S. Løchlann Jain, Clapperton C. Mavhunga, Matteo Pasquinelli, Lucy Suchman
Trauma: The Language of the Technosphere
How is the technosphere inscribed into individual human bodies? How are they restructured along a complex machinery of instruments, techniques, simulations?
Communicating, Engagement, Intervention, Monitoring, Storytelling, Teaching, Adaptation, Care, Anthropos, Anthropology, Cosmologies, Deep time, Embodiment, Education, Calculation, Future, Imaginary, Inequality, Settler Colonialism, Technosphere
- projectPeter K. Haff, Mark Hansen, Jürgen Renn, Erich Hörl, Birgit Schneider
Triggers: Introducing the Technosphere
What triggered the technosphere? This lightning-round presents a visual and aural panorama of events that catalyzed the rise of our contemporary technical worlds.
Communicating, Consensus Building, Intervention, Storytelling, Teaching, Modeling, History, Technosphere, Anthropos, Carbon, Agriculture, Capitalism, Climate change, Critical materials, Cybernetics, Data, Settler Colonialism, Disaster, Contingency, Extraction, Pollution, Network
