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Decolonising the Anthropocene: Crisis, climate justice and oceanic resistance

Crawford School of Public Policy | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis | Resources, Environment and Development Group

Event details

RE&D Research Seminar

Date & time

Wednesday 02 September 2020
12.00pm–12.45pm

Venue

Zoom

Speaker

Dr Siobhan McDonnell and Maeve Powell, Hosted by Bec Colvin

Please join us for an upcoming RE&D Research Notes webinar, hosted by the Resources, Environment and Development group (RE&D), Crawford School of Public Policy. We are pleased to launch this new webinar series, RE&D Research Notes, for 2020 Social Sciences week!

RE&D Scholars Dr Siobhan McDonnell and Maeve Powell will present their research insights on ‘Decolonising the Anthropocene’. The seminar will be facilitated by Dr Bec Colvin.

Following the work of Indigenous scholars, Dr McDonnell argues that decolonising the Anthropocene begins with returning land to Indigenous control. This draws on her work as an activist researcher and lawyer in supporting Indigenous Lelepa people to secure the return of their land under customary control.

Indigenous scholars have argued that the concept of the Anthropocene is an enactment of colonial logic which erases difference, and positions Eurocentric epistemologies as neutral. Powell uses the concept of Indigenous futurism to examine themes of time, Country and body in two Aboriginal science fiction texts as a space to reimagine decolonisation, climate justice and the Anthropocene.

Dr Siobhan McDonnell is a Legal Anthropologist who engages in applied work in Indigenous Australia and the Pacific around climate change, land rights and gender. Maeve Powell is a Ngiyampaa PhD scholar who situates her work within a trans- Indigenous scholarship at the intersection of Indigenous studies and critical geography. Both Siobhan and Maeve are scholars with the Resources, Environment and Development (RE&D) group at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy.

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