Exploring The Responses to 'Extractive Zones'
Macarena Gómez-Barris
Extractive Zones + Decolonial Praxis
Cultural critic, author and academic Macarena Gómez-Barris will discuss the work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals and artists in regions of South America noted for their biodiversity and long history of exploitative natural resource extraction during a lecture at Dickinson. “Extractive Zones + Decolonial Praxis,” will take place Monday, Jan. 28, at 7 p.m. in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter (ATS) Auditorium.
Based on her book, The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, Gómez-Barris will explore artistic and activist responses to extractive industries. Her work explores alternative modes of living, being and doing from within and outside of the extractive zones and argues for the need for a more capacious environmental humanities formation that includes climate justice from a Global South perspective.
Macarena Gómez-Barris is chairperson of social science and cultural studies and director of the Global South Center (GSC) at Pratt Institute. She is author of three books, including Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas and Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile. She is co-editor with Herman Gray of Towards a Sociology of a Trace, and she is working on a new book project called At the Sea’s Edge. Gómez-Barris was Fulbright Research Visiting Professor at Department of Sociology and Gender FLACSO-Quito, Ecuador, 2014-2015.
The program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and a Civic Learning and Engagement Initiative Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and co-sponsored by the departments of Latin American, Latino & Caribbean studies; art & art history; Spanish & Portuguese; and environmental studies. The event is part of the Clarke Forum’s semester theme, Sustainability.
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- Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues
- Department of Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies
- Department of Art & Art History
- Departmnet of Spanish & Portuguese
- Department of Environmental Studies & Environmental Science
Published January 24, 2019