Indigenous Translocality: Emergent Cosmogonies in the New World Order
2020 | Bernard Perley
“Indigenous peoples have endured the transformative processes of colonization that resulted in varying degrees of eradication, relocation, and transformation of their communities, ecosystems, and cosmogonies. Settler-colonial erasing of Indigenous worlds has initiated over 500 years of Indigenous translocalizing strategies that enabled surviving Indigenous communities to reconfigure ancestral worlds into contemporary emergent cosmogonies. These survival strategies offer the world’s populations a hopeful model of adaptation to the looming catastrophes of global warming and environmental disasters. This article reconceptualizes translocality in order to offer a corrective imaginary to remediate the slow violence of colonial imaginaries of progress and to promote hopeful futures.”
Perley, Bernard C. (2020). Indigenous Translocality: Emergent Cosmogonies in the New World Order. Theory & Event, 23(4), 977-1003. muse.jhu.edu/article/767877
Accumulation by Difference-making: An Anthropocene Story, Starring Witches
From the article: “What do witches have to do with the Anthropocene? More than one might think. In this article we undertake an in-depth book review of Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch to demonstrate how the rise of a division between the productive and reproductive realm, engendered in part through the witch hunts, is a founding condition of the Anthropocene.”
Collard, RC. and J. Dempsey. 2018. Accumulation by difference-making: an anthropocene story, starring witches. Gender, Place and Culture. 25(9): 1349-1364
Industrial Camps in Northern British Columbia: The Politics of ‘Essential’ Work and the Gendered Implications of Man Camps
“This place and gender-based paper arises from bearing witness to, and critically engaging, the heightened vulnerabilities that a global pandemic (COVID-19) brings to the geographies of so-called northern British Columbia (BC), Canada.”
Sloan Morgan, V., Hoogeveen, D., & de Leeuw, S. (2021). Industrial Camps in Northern British Columbia: The Politics of ‘Essential’ Work and the Gendered Implications of Man Camps. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 20(4), 409–430. https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/2046
Nagwediẑk’an gwaneŝ gangu ch’inidẑed ganexwilagh (The Fires Awakened Us)
“The catastrophic wildfires devastated British Columbia in 2017. The Tsilhqot’in communities, their territory and
wildlife will take years to recover. Planning for the future of impending emergencies needed to happen yesterday. The wildfires swept through the Tsilhqot’in territory in the summer of 2017 and illuminated the issues that plague the inclusion of First Nation value systems in government-togovernment relationships. In many ways the fires awakened the Tsilhqot’in people.”
Verhaeghe, C., Feltes, E., & Stacey, J. (2019). Nagwediẑk’an gwaneŝ gangu ch’inidẑed ganexwilagh (The Fires Awakened Us). Tŝilhqot’in National Government. https://commons.allard.ubc.ca/fac_pubs/606/
Biodiversity Targets Will Not Be Met Without Debt and Tax Justice
2020 | Jessica Dempsey, Audrey Irvine-Broque, Sara Nelson
From the report: “Approaches to financing biodiversity conservation tend to focus on funding gaps, but fail to address underlying political and economic drivers. We propose two strategies — tax reform and debt justice — to supercharge public financing for biodiversity and deflate harmful financial flows, while chipping away at the causes of state austerity.”
Dempsey, J., Irvine-Broque, A., Bigger, P., Christiansen, J., Muchhala, B., Nelson, S., Rojas-Marchini, F., Shapiro-Garza, E., Schuldt, A. & DiSilvestro, A. (2021). Biodiversity targets will not be met without debt and tax justice. Nat Ecol Evol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01619-5. Also available at: https://rdcu.be/cE6PN.