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Decolonizing Sustainability Speaker Series
Presented by the Department of Native Studies and the Environment & Community Graduate Program, the Decolonizing Sustainability Speaker Series is intended to highlight and unpack intersections of settler colonialism, white supremacy, and systems of power/privilege/oppression within the discourse and rhetoric of contemporary sustainability, environmental, and climate change movements.
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Previous Events
Recordings of previous events in the Decolonizing Sustainability Speaker Series can be found here:
- “We Have Always Been Scientists: Science, Sustainability & Indigenous Knowledge Systems” with Dr. Kaitlin Reed, Dr. Deepti Chatti, and Dr. Zoe Todd
- “Nobody Asked You John Muir - Settler Colonial Environmentalism, White Supremacy, and Sustainability” with Dr. Kaitlin Reed, Dr. Sarah Ray, and Dr. Heather Ponchetti Daly
- Indigenous Knowledge Cannot Be a Backup Plan: Collaboration, Sustainability & Decolonization with Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy, Dr. Brittani Orona, and Dr. Esme Murdock
- Forest Health Is Human Health: Indigenous Forestry & Place-Based Solutions by Dawn Blake with Dawn Blake
- A Short History of the Blockade, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson