Gregory Cushman: anthroposcenes, Historicizing Colonial Landscapes and Seascapes in the Pacific скачать в хорошем качестве

Gregory Cushman: anthroposcenes, Historicizing Colonial Landscapes and Seascapes in the Pacific

From the time that humans first set foot on its shores, the Pacific World has had colonial landscapes and seascapes. Pictorial maps have been central to the modern history of representation and conception of this vast region, and they provide a vivid chronicle of colonialist ideologies in action and their contributions to environmental change, aspects of which long predate as well as critique Euro-American penetration of the region. From a decolonial perspective, Pacific landscapes and seascapes are as notable for that which is missing, erased, or out-of-sight as that which is easily visible to the colonial gaze. If earth scientists must insist on demarcating a starting point for the ‘human epoch’ of planetary history, they should look to dramatic absences—to anti-sedimentary formations—at the heart of the Pacific World to place their golden spike, which are symbolic of the extractivism and ruthless quest for power that drives industrial capitalist civilization. ABOUT SPEAKER - GREGORY T. CUSHMAN (He/Him) Gregory T. Cushman joined the history faculty at the University of Arizona, USA, this past August after years at the University of Kansas. He specializes in global environmental history, Latin American history, Pacific history, and the history of science, technology, and engineering. His award-winning book Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History (Cambridge University Press, 2013) is one of the first studies to examine the environmental and cultural history of the modern world from the perspective of the whole Pacific Basin and demonstrates how humble bird excrement changed the course of modern history. Climate change and variability are central issues in Cushman’s work, as well as the environmental engagements of Indigenous peoples in the Andean and Pacific Worlds. In 2015-17, he was the recipient of an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. ROUNDTABLE SPEAKERS CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ (He/Him) Dr. Craig Santos Perez is an indigenous CHamoru from the Pacific Island of Guam. He is the co-editor of six anthologies, including Geopoetics in Practice (Routledge, 2019), Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia (U of Hawaii Press, 2019), and Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures (U of Hawaii Press, 2022). He is also the author of six books of poetry, most recently Habitat Threshold (Omnidawn, 2020), which is a collection of "eco-poetry" about ecology, environmental justice, human-animal relations, and climate change. His monograph, Navigating Chamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization (U of Arizona Press, 2021), is the first full-length study of poetry from the native peoples of Guam. He is professor in the English department, and affiliate faculty in the Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the Indigenous Politics Program, at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. MAYA KÓVSKAYA (Femme They/Them) Maya Kóvskaya (Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 2009) is founder and head of the AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab—a multidisciplinary research initiative in the Global South focused on how human and more-than-human world-making and survival are mutually entangled under the compound crises of climate chaos, mass extinction, and patchy Anthropocene conditions . Maya teaches Multispecies Anthropocene Studies; Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Studies; and Political, Critical, Cultural, and Semiotic Theory at Chiang Mai University in the Faculty of Social Science. They have published widely on the intersection of the political, linguistic, and ecological with performative, semiotic, and visual culture. Their ecophilosophical work further involves a conceptual examination of the philosophical underpinnings and etiologies of what they call the "Anthroposupremocene." Interrogating the workings of the invidious, hierarchical, dualist division between humans and the more-than-human world, Maya traces the historically contingent, constitutive and rupturing "species-alienation" of Western Humanist "Man/Anthropos" from "Nature," and the unfolding catastrophic consequences for the planet. They have also been a curator, and award-winning art critic since 2005, having lived, taught, curated exhibitions, and done research in Russia, China, India, and Thailand, since the 1990s. MYINT THAN (He/Him) Myint Than is an indigenous Mon researcher hailing from Mon State in Myanmar. He is a former Buddhist monk and was an educator teaching refugees in camps in Thailand and Mon State. Currently a master's student studying Social Science and Sustainable Development at Chiang Mai University (CMU) under the Presidential Scholarship, Myint Than is part of the AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab "Dynamics of Multispecies Contact Zones" research project, spearheaded by multispecies scholar Eben Kirksey (Oxford University), and AMOR MUNDI Lab Director, Anthropocene scholar Maya Kóvskaya (CMU), resulting in a co-authored article with Kirksey and other lab members.