- Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe
- Morgan Adamson
- Ravi Agarwal
- Bruce Braun
- Geneva Lebouf
- Sarah Lewison
- Grace Treffinger
- Shana M. griffin
Seminar: Claims/Property
Making and Unmaking Property in the Anthropocene
Claims on property have embroiled the Mississippi region in a host of historic tensions and intractable legacies of violent injustice. This seminar engages the complicated entanglements of property claims that cut across the social, racial, and ecological landscapes of the Mississippi Delta, while connecting them to upriver struggles, as well as to the meaning of the Anthropocene itself.
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- 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
- contributionRavi Agarwal
Lost Voices
On the shared experiences of those who live along the Mississippi in New Orleans and the Yamuna in Delhi, reciprocal relationships with nature, and the importance of listening in the Anthropocene.
Engagement, Reflection, Conversation, Capitalism, Education, Human-environment relations, Naturecultures, Water
- Field Notet.simone.gaClaims and Property
My great-great grandmother was property. A fetish commodity and the technology through which other humans and public and private enterprises accelerated this anthropocenic epoch. Having at one time been property, today was extremely heavy. Not only the moving through the city but that one of our group members could not be accommodated and therefore could not move with us. Value valuelessness confinement disposability. I find myself a bit stuck tonight. I hope that we can see the lingering and far reaching effects of racial capitalism and its relationship to the Anthropocene. I hope that we see the the racism and ableism within the environmental injustices we witness and participate in. I hope we see that New Orleans is here but that New Orleans is also everywhere.#15581
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Storytelling, Reflection, Conversation, Affect, Agency, Anthropos, Capitalism, Consensus, Contingency, Epistemology, Ethics, Representation, Sharing economy, Extraction
- Field Noteunderhil
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Monitoring, Climate change, Geo-engineering, Imaginary, Slavery, Cosmologies, Air, Transport
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Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None , University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
Restore The Mississippi River Delta, mississippiriverdelta.org, project website.
Program details
Seminar Slot II: November 13–15, 2019
Conveners
Morgan Adamson
Bruce Braun
Shana M. griffin
Sarah Lewison (primary organizer)
Grace Treffinger
Experts
Ravi Agarwal
Geneva LeBeouf and the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe (PACIT)
Laura D. Kelley
