Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Specific details of courses to be offered will be published prior to enrollment each term.

COURSE DETAILS:

Indigenous Futures ruptures the notion that there is one linear future thinking and future making for all Indigenous communities globally. Through immersion in literature and media from Indigenous scholars, storytellers, photographers, filmmakers, and digital artists, students will engage in multiple ways in which Indigenous communities regionally and globally imagine their futures. Through digital projects, students will have opportunities to study and visualize how Indigenous peoples conceptualize their future by re-telling community histories of solidarity against state/police violence, navigating climate justice, and imagining new forms of belonging. Central to the course is the understanding of how Indigenous communities reconcile with memory to imagine sovereign futures for themselves.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

• We will describe aspects of Indigenous societies through analytical frameworks in Global Indigenous Studies.
• We will examine how global Indigenous communities engage with archives, memory, and storytelling as not only bearers of the past but actors for future making
• We will analyze how discussions of Indigenous futurisms draw from transnational conversations that are happening across the world - from the US and Canada context to dialogues that are simultaneously occurring among Indigenous communities in the Andes and the Himalaya.
• We will evaluate ethical questions that arise in the homogenized and hegemonic representations of Indigenous communities in visual media globally and in Turtle Island. Counter to these forms of problematic imagery, students will engage in visual materials created by Indigenous makers themselves to reframe understandings on the diversity of ways in which Indigenous communities imagine their social life worlds.

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