Keyword: Slavery
- contributionBenjamin Steininger
Going Against the Flow
How consideration of the local effects of global dependencies, can help us to reckon with—and change—our role in sustaining often damaging entanglements of commodity flows.
Engagement, Intervention, Field Work, Teaching, Extraction, Commodities, Complexity, Slavery, Capitalism, Habits, History, Infrastructure
- 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
- contributionJason Ludwig
“Planting a Seed is a Revolutionary Act"
How a “blues epistemology” can establish the critical historical consciousness crucial for determining more just futures in the Anthropocene.
Engagement, Teaching, Field Work, Conversation, Engagement, History, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Inequality, Race, Slavery, Violence
- contributionScott Gabriel Knowles, Ashley Rogers
Layers of Violence
From agricultural slavery to petroleum, the banks of the Mississippi in Louisiana represent an Anthropocenic space characterized by a slow history of extraction.
Field Work, Teaching, Engagement, Reflection, Slavery, Capitalism, Violence, Equality, History, Race, Extraction
- contributionThomas Turnbull
Driving the Limits of Time
How acknowledging and engaging with complex temporal clashes can generate coherent responses to the seemingly totalizing notion of the Anthropocene.
Reflection, Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Deep time, History, Human-environment relations, Slavery, Carbon, Time
- contributionSadie Luetmer
Seminar Film: Clashing Temporalities
This short film offers insights into the perspectives and methods of the seminar on “Clashing Temporalities,” which took place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019.
Film, Field Work, History, Ethics, Slavery
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Intervention, Affect, Capitalism, Carbon, Disaster, Education, Ethics, Habits, Slavery, Colonialism, Toxics, Whiteness, undead
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Mapping, Teaching, Slavery, naming
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Norco, Louisiana, USA
Field Work, Monitoring, Capitalism, Carbon, Energy, Pollution, Race, Environmental Justice, Inequality, Slavery, Industrialization, Risk, Oil, refinery, Time, Toxics
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Monitoring, Climate change, Geo-engineering, Imaginary, Slavery, Cosmologies, Air, Transport
- Field Notes.kanouse
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Garyville, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Case Study, Capitalism, History, Life, Inequality, Risk, Slavery, Plantation, Oil, Embodied research, refinery, Whiteness
- Field Noteunderhil
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Engagement, Agency, Autonomy, Embodiment, Engagement, History, Imaginary, Resilience, Inequality, Slavery, Plantation, Memory, Sugar Cane, Women
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Intervention, Film, Agriculture, Autonomy, Embodiment, Equality, History, Landscape, Life, Scenario, Race, Inequality, Slavery, Plantation, Extraction
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St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Field Work, Flood, Human-environment relations, Slavery, River journey, Flooding
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Burton Lane, St. James Parish, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Anthropos, Engagement, Landscape, Inequality, Slavery, Oil, Law, undead
- Field Noteslewison
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Equality, Representation, Race, Risk, Slavery, Plantation
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Case Study, Field Work, Aesthetics, History, Life, Scale, Slavery, Plantation
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Case Study, Field Work, Aesthetics, Commodities, History, Life, Slavery, Plantation
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Field Work, Sound, Habits, Life, Local knowledge, Inequality, Slavery, Plantation, Fieldstation, Colonial, Colonialism
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Glen Allan, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Case Study, Reflection, Field Work, Aesthetics, Habits, Life, Local knowledge, Race, Slavery, Plantation
- contributionTemporary continent., Aaron Richmond
Fanning Comfort
A conversation on how the object of the punkah fan speaks to histories of both subjugation and liberation, and how we might relate such narratives to contemporary climate injustice.
Conversation, Case Study, Intervention, Plantation, Slavery, Environmental Justice, Human-environment relations, Inequality
- projectMontana Torrey
Two Breezes
Punkahs brought climate control into the American South from early on, using enslaved peoples to laboriously fan plantation owners in the summer heat.
Case Study, Storytelling, Plantation, Slavery, Socio-ecological design, Air
- projectBeate Geissler, Oliver Sann, Benjamin Steininger, Thomas Turnbull, Ibrahima Seck, Nikos Katsikis, Scott Eustis
Seminar: Commodity Flows
The relations between extraction, synthesis, and exploitation, and the effects of commodity dependencies across scales are explored in this seminar, by mapping commodity flows and energy cycles in the Mississippi basin.
Case Study, Teaching, Commodities, Capitalism, Energy, Agriculture, Transportation, History, Economy, Race, Slavery, Plantation, Metabolism, Infrastructure, Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar Cane, Oil
- projectMaya Kóvskaya, Montana Torrey, Ellie Irons
Natchez: Etiologies of Anthropocenic Emergence
Natchez rests at the intersection of entangled violence of white supremacism and human exceptionalism as they play out on the landscape.
Storytelling, Field Study, History, Violence, Economy, Agriculture, Equality, Plantation, Slavery, Race, Environmental Justice
