"Resistance" lecture

RESISTANCE: A LECTURE SERIES IN

RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES

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19/11/2024, 18h (CET), Youtube Channel

"Beyond Leopold and Momaday: An Indigenous
Feminist View of a Relational Land Ethic",
by Dina Gilio-Whitake

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This lecture is the third in a series on Radical Environmental Humanities, promoted by Resistance in collaboration with the Institute for the History of Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Once a month, from September 2024 to June 2025, Resistance will bring together a community of radical scholars to share ideas, stories, and dreams for the world we so desperately need.

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The lecture will compare the environmental ethics of Aldo Leopold and N. Scott Momaday, arguing that any conception of environmental ethics must include attention to environmental justice in order to be responsive to Native American people. It also challenges what I call the “Leopold influence theory” which contends that Leopold’s land ethic was shaped by his proximity to tribes in the Southwest.

Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes descendant) is a renowned Native American studies scholar and journalist, especially on the topics of environmental justice, Indigenous knowledge, and identity. She is lecturer faculty in American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos and co-founder of the Indigenous Climate and Environmental Collaborative at CSUSM, advising researchers, conservation and other organizations on Indigenous engagement and other policy-based protocols. Her most recent book is the award-winning As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock released in 2019 and her forthcoming book The Ghosts Be Indian: Ethnic Fraud and Other Difficult Conversations about Native American Identity is scheduled for release in spring 2025 from Beacon Press.

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Link of connection: Youtube Channel 
For further information, please write: marco.armiero@uab.cat