This is a follow-up to a series of posts shared here on the topic of Indigenous identity, allyship, and the situation in my local state of Vermont. The first three can be found here: titled “Reindigenization and allyship: starting points,” “Reindigenization & allyship, part 2,” and “Reindigenization & allyship, part 3: on getting it right.” […]
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Indigenous identity & Vermont: an update, updated
Posted in Cultural politics, tagged Abenaki, Darryl Leroux, Elnu Abenaki, Indigenous identity, Indigenous politics, Kim Tallbear, Koasek tribe, Missisquoi tribe, Nulhegan Abenaki, Odanak and Wolinak first nations, Odanak First Nation, race-shifting controversy, self-indigenization, United Nations, Vermont, Vermont Abenaki, Vermont Abenaki controversy, W8banaki on December 22, 2023 | 1 Comment »
Race-shifting, gender transitioning, & other identity moves
Posted in Cultural politics, tagged cultural identity, gender politics, gender transitioning, identity, identity politics, indigenous, Indigenous sovereignty, Kim Tallbear, late capitalism, pretendianism, race-shifting, self-indigenization, transgender, Vermont on May 5, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
These thoughts, written in the aftermath of a half-day conference on race-shifting (first part viewable here) and influenced by Kim TallBear’s critique of identity, have me going out on a limb, for reasons that are likely pretty obvious. But I will persevere with them, and ask that you read them through to the end before reacting to isolated parts of the […]
Reindigenization & allyship, part 3: On getting it right
Posted in Cultural politics, tagged Abenaki, Darryl Leroux, First Nations, Gina Adams, identity, Indigenous affairs, Indigenous identity, indigenous peoples, Kim Tallbear, Michelle Cyca, Odanak First Nation, Pretendians, race-shifting, tribal politics, University of Vermont, Vermont, Vermont state recognition of Indigenous peoples, Wabanaki on September 21, 2022 | 5 Comments »
This post is the third in a series on the topic of Indigenous identity, universities, and processes of (re-)indigenization. Part 1 can be read here; Part 2, here. While the following is most relevant to the case of Vermont, I hope it can also contribute to a broader consideration of these issues.
“Then we take Berlin…”
Posted in Academe, tagged Berlin, Cinepoetics Centre for Advanced Film Studies, Fulbright, globalism, Leonard Cohen, localism, New Hampshire, personal, Robert Fripp, Vermont on July 26, 2022 | 1 Comment »
When your life takes you places. Or, on localism and the ambivalence of the green mobile intellectual… One of the paradoxes of environmental scholarship is that, for obvious reasons, many of us favor localism over globalism, community solutions over international policy crafting (though we obviously recognize the need for the latter), and living-in-place over a […]
Reindigenization & allyship, part 2
Posted in Cultural politics, tagged Abenaki, Abenaki of Vermont, Darryl Leroux, identity politics, indigeneity, Indigenous identity, indigenous peoples, Odanak First Nation, Pretendians, race-shifting, self-indigenization, Vermont on April 8, 2022 | 6 Comments »
I have been hesitant to follow up on my post of last summer on “Reindigenization and Allyship” because of the complications surrounding this issue, especially in my state of Vermont. The following can be considered part two in a series, as I continue to think through the politics of indigeneity, identity (including its malleability), territoriality […]
Reindigenization and allyship: starting points
Posted in Cultural politics, tagged Abenaki, allyship, Darryl Leroux, El Nu, Indian country, indigenization, indigenous peoples, Indigenous solidarity, Indigenous studies, Koasek, Land Grab universities, land-grant universities, Métissage, Missisquoi, Nulhegan, Odanak, self-indigenization, University of Vermont, Vermont, W8banaki, Wabanaki, Wolinak on July 30, 2021 | 7 Comments »
I often “think out loud” on this blog. That’s been very useful as a way of getting feedback on work in progress; it also forces me to be both honest and careful with my words. The following is being shared in the same spirit: it’s related to teaching and writing in progress, but also to […]
Equinoxx
Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged Bill McKibben, bioregionalism, equinox, seasons, Vermont, weather on March 24, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Equinoxes and solstices are geometrical phenomena. They mark the passage of time in ways that are easy to understand and more or less universal. I understand people’s desire to watch for them, to mark them out, and to even reclaim them as somehow more primordial than other kinds of temporal passage points. But changing seasons […]
Local election call
Posted in Politics, tagged Ali Dieng, Burlington, local politics, Max Tracy, Miro Weinberger, Vermont on February 26, 2021 | 3 Comments »
I don’t usually write about local politics on this blog. But why not? Here’s my prediction for next Tuesday’s Burlington,* Vermont, mayoral election. Let this be a test of how good, or bad, I’ve gotten at observing my city’s politics. (For outsiders: this is the city where Bernie Sanders cut his political chops as mayor […]
Planet of Some Humans
Posted in Cinema, Climate change, Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged apocalypticism, becoming human, Bil McKibben, biocentrism, climate change communication, climate change politics, Deep Adaptation, deep ecology, degrowth, diversity, doomism, ecodocumentaries, ecopolitics, energy politics, films, green energy, Green New Deal, Malthusianism, Michael Moore, Planet of the Humans, post-human, Vermont on May 1, 2020 | 5 Comments »
This past week has seen a firestorm of reaction among environmentalists and climate and energy scientists to the online release of the film Planet of the Humans. Written, directed, and produced by first-time director Jeff Gibbs, but — much more importantly — executive-produced and actively promoted by Michael Moore, the film is incendiary and intentionally […]
Vermonters & climate change
Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged climate action, climate motivation, interview, news, small-c conservative values, Vermont, Vermonters, VPIRG, WCAX on November 30, 2018 | 3 Comments »
I was interviewed yesterday by the local CBS-affiliated WCAX news show on the topic of how to motivate Vermonters to take action on climate change (while Bernie Sanders and Cornel West were speaking just up the road). What was used of our interview was fairly minimal, so I thought I would share the notes I […]
Whitehead in Greensboro
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Greensboro, Greensboro VT, place and philosophy, Process and Reality, Vermont, Whitehead on July 6, 2016 | 3 Comments »
This post follows up on my previous note about Alfred North Whitehead’s time spent in Greensboro, Vermont. It was updated on July 7, 2016, thanks to information obtained from the Mitchells’ descendants. I have found out where the Whiteheads stayed when he was writing his philosophical magnum opus, Process and Reality. It was in a two-story cottage owned by economist […]
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