Panel discussion:
Monday, October 14 at 9:30am
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Directed by Subash Thebe Limbu, Ningwasum follows two time travellers 鈥� Miksam and Mingsoma 鈥� to a futuristic Himalayas where indigenous sovereignty and technology meet a new climate reality.听The film weaves together Yakthung folk tales, music, and language to foreground indigenous perspectives and challenge typical portrayals of indigenous backwardness.
A virtual panel discussion and question-and-answer event with the author will explore the theme of indigenous climate futurism and its relevance for understanding contemporary climate justice alongside ongoing gender, caste, racial, and ethnic inequality.
Panelists:
Subash Thebe Limbu, Director,听Ningwasum
Phurwa Gurung is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at CU Boulder. A National Geographic Society Awardee and Explorer, his research focuses on Indigenous environmental governance in the Himalayas. Funded by the SSRC, his doctoral听dissertation research takes caterpillar听fungus as a lens to examine the ways in which state-led听biodiversity conservation and resource extraction overlap and clash with Indigenous environmental governance.听He is also the author of articles published in听Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space听补苍诲听骋别辞蹿辞谤耻尘.听听
Clint Carroll is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies at CU Boulder, and听釓ａ幊釒┽幆听釒犪彴釒堤帹釒册帰听(Citizen of Cherokee Nation). He听works closely with Cherokee people in Oklahoma on issues of land conservation and the perpetuation of land-based knowledge and ways of life. His book,听Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance听(2015, University of Minnesota Press), explores how tribal natural resource managers navigate the material and structural conditions of settler colonialism, as well as how recent efforts in cultural revitalization are informing such practices through traditional forms of decision-making and local environmental knowledge.听Dr. Carroll has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Udall Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Science Foundation. He was also a 2014-2016 Fellow of听the Native Investigator Development Program, funded by the National Institutes of Health. His work has been published in听Ethnohistory,听Geoforum,听Environmental Research,听EcoHealth, and numerous edited collections.
Jennifer Fluri is Professor and Chair in the Department of Geography at CU Boulder. She听a feminist political geographer concentrating on conflict, security, and aid/development in Afghanistan. In Colorado, she co-directs the CU-Boulder Affordable Housing Research Initiative (CU-BAHRI), which focuses on community-driven and engaged research with organizations and individuals providing, working toward, or interested in affordable housing. Her book,听Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other Afghan-American Entanglements听(2017, University of Georgia Press) is a critical study of the everyday politics of aid and development in Afghanistan. She is the author of articles published in听Geopolitics, Geoforum, Annals of the American Association of Geographers,听and others.
Shae Frydenlund is Assistant Teaching Professor, Center for Asian Studies at CU Boulder. Her research examines the relationship between forced displacement, labor exploitation, and capitalist frontier-making in Southeast Asia and the Himalayas. Her work is published in听Geopolitics, Political Geography, and听Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, among others. At CU Boulder, Dr. Frydenlund leads the Climate and Society in Asia curriculum and teaches courses on environmental politics, climate change, and development in Asia.
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