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Sharpening our moral clarity

Posted in Anthropocene, Cultural politics, tagged , , , , , , on October 12, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

Indigenous intellectuals like Kim Tallbear see the current Anthropocene crisis (climate change, etc.) as a continuation and intensification of the kind of thing Indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans (among others) have experienced for centuries. Her thoughts for Indigenous People’s Day, shared on Tallbear’s Substack account, are well worth reading. Describing a “radical hope” that might […]

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Eco+Deco, a manifesto in progress

Posted in Cultural politics, Eco-theory, Manifestos & auguries, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 31, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

Some of the best art exhibitions today show that the socially engaged art world is undergoing two shifts that some of us in the environmental humanities have been advocating for some time: they ecologize and they decolonize. An excellent example of this is the second edition of the Toronto Biennale of Art, currently wrapping up […]

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The traumatic kernel of the unfolding storm

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 25, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

Here are a few thoughts coming out of the five weeks of readings in decolonial theory that I’m doing with my Advanced Environmental Humanities class (which has been online and open to the interested public). The course is centrally concerned with the present “global moment,” and the following can be considered a short take on […]

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The “what does it have to do with me?” defense

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 11, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

A casual comment on a minor article in a provincial newspaper in a faraway country (Ukraine) got me going on a response to what is, essentially, the white world’s default position on all things racial. (Social media comments, as a rule, aren’t indicative of anything, but this one is so symptomatic it’s worth examining.) The […]

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Mapping identities in global cultural studies

Posted in Cultural politics, Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 28, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

People’s identities are an object of study in a range of fields, but it’s the field of cultural studies that has most singularly, even obsessively, sought to understand how identities interact with politics in changing media environments. Cultural studies first emerged in a British milieu marked by very specific relations between socio-economic classes, media industries, […]

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The colonization of scholarly publishing

Posted in Academe, tagged , , , , , , , on October 3, 2017 | 8 Comments »

For those following the debate over the article “The Case for Colonialism,” the following adds little new. It’s mostly a way of summarizing the issue and collecting some useful links in one place.  There’s a lesson for academia in the flare-up over the Third World Quarterly article “The Case for Colonialism” by Bruce Gilley. The […]

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