Room Number: TRS-077
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Chair: Sam Durrant (U Leeds)
Speakers:
Brendon Nicholls (U Leeds), “Towards an Environmental Commons: Indigenous Knowledges, Shape-Shifting and Global Food Security”
Ishaan Selby (McMaster U), “Rupture Beyond The Human: Blackness, Animality and Property”
Ryan Topper (Western Oregon U), “Multidimensional Memory: Intra-Animate Testimony in Yvonne Vera’s Writing”
Paper Summaries:
Brendon Nicholls (U Leeds), “Towards an Environmental Commons: Indigenous Knowledges, Shape-Shifting and Global Food Security”
Indigenous Southern African shape-shifting combatted 19th century colonial food insecurity, which has since become more globally systematic. Taken seriously, non-human embodiments exceed our insular species self-interest, and guide us toward a metamorphic environmental commons in which all actors – both sentient and inert – express a genuine political stake.
Ishaan Selby (McMaster U), “Rupture Beyond The Human: Blackness, Animality and Property”
This paper explores the potential of Black abolition and animal abolition to come together in a common critique of the property form. It further focuses on the failure of that coming together uniting two senses of rupture: the rupture of a common project and the rupture of the dominant order.
Ryan Topper (Western Oregon U), “Multidimensional Memory: Intra-Animate Testimony in Yvonne Vera’s Writing”
In this presentation I analyze Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning and The Stone Virgins in light of her unpublished scholarship and place this analysis in dialogue with influential theories of post-traumatic testimony and cultural memory.