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)

• Ethnocentrism

• 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"