LATAMER 422S · also LSGS 422S, SPANISH 422S
Indigenous Futurisms: Sentient Territories and Decolonial Futures
Angelica Serna Jeri
Description from DukeHub
This class will explore how indigenous creators and intellectuals from Latin America intervene in the narratives of the past, reformulate the present, and imagine the future utilizing ancestral knowledge, environmental ethics, and decolonial thinking. We will discuss issues related to indigenous sovereignty and self-determination through the work of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, José Carlos Mariátegui, Micaela Bastidas, Arguedas, the Qhipa Pacha Collective, Daniel Munduruku, E.G. Condé, Federico Cuatlacuatl, among others. We will also examine how the future becomes a territory where technology, the revitalization of languages, and nature coexist. This class aims to reflect on themes of time, memory, coloniality, and environmental advocacy.
Skills
No skill passed the confidence bar. Weak matches go to review instead of this page: an AI pass that has to quote the description, then a person.
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "ethics"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 15 seats per section
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