Decoloniality and film Aitana

Session 2 (jan.23)

Indigenizing the Anthropocene by Zoe Todd

Concepts

• Indigenization

- in the text it is used as a synonym for decolonisation.

- Concern that it is a form of reverse assimilation or colonization (University of Saskatchewan, CA)

- Indigenization is the act of making something more native; transformation of some service, idea, etc. to suit a local culture, especially through the use of more indigenous people in public administration, employment and other fields. (Wikipedia)

- (Spanish translation) Acquiring a mestizo or ladino the customs and ways of life of an indigenous group. cult (ASALE; Span, Equatorial Guinea, Colombia, Philippines)

• Anthropocene

- (Spanish translation) Said of an epoch: That is the most recent of the Quaternary period, spanning from the mid-20th century to the present day and characterised by the global and synchronous modification of natural systems by human action. U. t. c. s. m. (RAE, ES)

- The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems, including, but not limited to, anthropogenic climate change. (Wikipedia, EN)

• Postmodernism

- Postmodernism is a mode of discourse that is characterized by philosophical skepticism toward the grand narratives offered by modernism; that rejects epistemological certainty and the stability of meaning; and rejects the emphasis on ideology as the means of maintaining political power. (Wikipedia, EN)

- (Spanish translation) Postmodern philosophy or postmodernism is a philosophical current that assumes that the ideas that characterised modernity and the Enlightenment have been surpassed. Postmodern philosophy emerged mainly in the 1960s, especially in France. This name groups together thoughts that develop a strong critique of the tradition and rationality of Western Modernity.(Wikipedia, ES)

- Reaction against the ideas and values of modernism, associated with scepticism, irony and philosophical critiques of the concepts of universal truths and objective reality. (Tate Galrrey, UK)

• Ethnocentrism

- (Spanish translation) Ethnocentrism is an ideological estimation through which individuals analyse the world according to the parameters of their own reality. It is a concept developed by anthropology to refer to the tendency of a person or social group to interpret reality on the basis of their own cultural parameters. Ethnocentrism often involves the belief that one's own ethnic group is the most important. (Wikipedia, ES)

• Gentrification

- (Spanish translation) Renovation of an urban area, usually popular or run-down, through a process that involves the displacement of its original population by a more affluent one. (RAE, ES)

- is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents and businesses (EN, Wikipedia)

• Decolonization

- in the text it is used as a synonym for indigenization.

• White supremacy

• Heteropatriarchy

• Eurocentrism

(related to) Juanita Sundberg - human geographer

• Posthumanism
• Pluriverse
• "Pluriverse" by Sundberg

(related to) Sara Hunt - geographer (kwakwaka'wakw, Kwagiulth)

• "Ontology of dwelling" by Haudenosaunee and
• Ontology/ontological/indigenous ontologies

(related to) Zakiyyah Jackson

(related to) Vanessa Watts - Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe scholar

• "Indigenous place thought"

can stand in place of or alongside

• "Ontology of dwelling" by Tim Ingold - British anthropologist

both as Place-Thought

• "Hierarchies of agency"
• Actor Network Theory

(related to) Sara Ahmed

• "citational relational"
• "buildings" or "white men as buildings"

(related to) Karen Brodking, Sandra Morgen and Janis Hutchinson - anthropologists

• "white public space"

(related to) Guillermo Gomez Pena

(related to) Rebecca Belmore and Jolene Rickard

• Material-as-bridge
• Non-human agents

(related to) Dwayne Donald - Papaschase Cree scholar

• "ethical relationality"
• "ecological imagination"
• "Indigenous Métissage"
• "Ethic of historical consciousness"