Alexander Arroyo, Elizabeth Chatterjee, Bathsheba Demuth, Matthew Johnson, Owain Lawson, Jen Rose Smith

Global Souths / Native Norths

Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU), University of Chicago / November 18, 2022

November 18, 2022

The historical geographies of extractivism and empire cut across the division between “Global North” and “Global South.” This roundtable brings together scholars working on the Russian and North American Arctic, Brazil, and Lebanon for a conversation across regions rarely placed in the same frame. We will trace the surprising parallels and uncanny connections between histories of energy extraction and ecological transformation on very different colonial and capitalist resource frontiers. We will explore, too, sources of hope: the nodes of resistance and alternative imaginaries generated by projects of Indigenous and decolonial worldmaking.