Book Launch: Weaving Indigenous Re-existences: Struggles for the Defence of Water and Territory in Mexico and Canada
Join us for an afternoon dialogue with book editor and authors Isabel ltamirano-Jiménez and Angele Alookto discuss Indigenous Land Defense and Water Protection
After centuries of colonization and territorial dispossession, Indigenous struggles to defend and protect water and land have become even more crucial. For Indigenous peoples, defending and protecting water and land involves not only rejecting the policies of the nation-state but also embodying alternative ways of life and building alternative political projects.
In Weaving Indigenous Re-existences , these projects are analyzed from diverse perspectives and locations, establishing an exchange of experiences and a political dialogue between Mexico and Canada. This dialogical approach to the various processes allows us to begin deciphering the ways in which racial, gender, colonial, and capitalist violence intertwine through trade agreements and the expansion of the extractive frontier. At the same time, it allows us to glimpse the Indigenous practices that construct other worlds and other ways of being in them.
Featured Guests:
Angele Alook: Associate Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies
Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez: Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Comparative Indigenous Feminist Studies
Location:
Third floor, CIKL Boardroom, 353B York Lanes
Hybrid option available. Contact CIKL: cikl@yorku.ca
