Global Souths / Native Norths

Environmental Studies Workshop

Global Souths / Native Norths

Friday, November 18,12:00pm CT
Harper 104 (1116 E. 59th St.) & Zoom Webinar

Bathsheba Demuth, Brown University
Matthew P. Johnson, Harvard University
Owain Lawson, University of Toronto
Jen Rose Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alexander Arroyo & Elizabeth Chatterjee, University of Chicago (moderators)

The historical geographies of extractivism and empire cut across the division between “Global North” and “Global South.” This roundtable brings together scholars working on the Russian and North American Arctic, Brazil, and Lebanon for a conversation across regions rarely placed in the same frame. We will trace the surprising parallels and uncanny connections between histories of energy extraction and ecological transformation on very different colonial and capitalist resource frontiers. We will explore, too, sources of hope: the nodes of resistance and alternative imaginaries generated by projects of Indigenous and decolonial worldmaking.

This session of the Environmental Studies Workshop is co-sponsored by the Urban Theory Lab and the Neubauer Collegium Project on Fossil Capitalism on the Global South.

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