Dates and Times
09 October 2019
12:30 - 13:30
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Centre for Creative & Cultural Research
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Dr Affrica Taylor
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CCCR seminar: River dialogues from an eco-feminist salon road trip
Please join us for the next presentation in the CCCR seminar series by Dr Affrica Taylor.
Abstract: In this presentation I recount a series of river dialogues that emerged from a Canadian road trip I took earlier this year. My colleagues from the Common Worlds Research Collective and I drove along the Athabasca River corridor, from the river’s source near Jasper, in the Canadian Rockies, to the oil mining township of Fort McMurray, in far north Alberta. Here the river’s waters are used to extract crude oil from bitumen in open cut tarsands mines. This field trip was part of a climate action pedagogies research project, designed to experiment with more-than-human feminist methods. As a way of materially figuring our journey, we crocheted shapes of the shifting riverine landscape as we drove through it. We also read aloud passages from Val Plumwood’s eco-feminist writings, particularly drawing inspiration from her articles ‘Shadow places’ and ‘Nature in the active voice’. In honour of our destination and our feminist methods, we called this trip the BITCHumen salon.
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Affrica Taylor is a CCCR Adjunct Associate Professor. She has background in Indigenous Australian education and a PhD in cultural geography. Both have shaped her abiding interest in the relations between people, place and other species on damaged settler colonised lands, and in the need to decolonise these relations in ecologically challenging times. She explores these relations in numerous publications, including her books: Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood; Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education; and The Common Worlds of Children and Animals: Relational Ethics for Entangled Lives.
UC acknowledges the Ngunnawal people, traditional custodians of the lands where Bruce campus is situated. We wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of Canberra and the region. We also acknowledge all other First Nations Peoples on whose lands we gather.