Améfricas: Indigenous and Black Geospatialities (WGSS 5398)
“Améfrica” highlights the contributions of African and Indigenous peoples in the Americas. Proposed by Brazilian thinker Lélia Gonzalez, the seminar examines geographies of colonialism, racial capitalism, settler-mestizaje, and memory. Black and Indigenous Geospatiality explores theories and methods that advocate against oppression in the Americas. Students will evaluate limits and possibilities in geospatial praxis: space-place, power, and relationality. By connecting Indigenous and Black radical thought to contemporary anti-racist and feminist struggles, we will explore resurgence, gender, organizing, mobility, self-determination, and socio-spatial justice. Geospatiality mediates Black and Indigenous experiences, stressing the need for diverse perspectives in geographic thought.
Indigenous Geographies in Abya Yala and Turtle Island (GEOG 3010)
This course examines Indigenous spatial knowledge and their relationships with history, place, gender, research, and advocacy. Drawing on post/decolonial, feminist, and critical frameworks, we explore how Indigenous Geographies in Abya-Yala and Turtle Island (The Americas) are being theorized and practiced in/beyond academia. This course will help students to critically rethink the meaning of Indigenous geography in a context of increased global interdependency, extractivism, and racial inequality.