“Unsettled Ecologies: Alienated Species, Indigenous Restoration, and U.S. Empire in a Time of Climate Chaos”
Lisa Fink, PhD candidate, Environmental Studies, and 2021–22 OHC Dissertation Fellow
Friday December 3, 2021
12 p.m. (PST) via Zoom. Register
This project investigates the relationship between environmental conservation discourses of species invasion and the racialization of immigrants in the U.S. In doing so, it traces environmental thinking about invasive species from Western/colonial, Indigenous, and anti-imperialist perspectives within the context of settler colonialism, immigration, and climate change. I examine how racial and settler colonial logics undergird Western/colonial approaches, echoing anti-immigrant sentiment. Dialectically, I explore responses emerging out of Indigenous and non-European settler communities that do important culture-shifting work around human-nature interaction and notions of belonging.
