Macarena Gómez-Barris on extractivism’s threats to humans and the more-than-human

Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University), an interdisciplinary scholar, speaks on decolonial advocacy and creative expression in indigenous activism, and alliances formed among peoples and between human and more-than-human subjects in opposing extractive capitalism. She also discusses how greater attention given to perspectives from the Global South might further reshape considerations of knowledge production, learning, community, and activism in higher education.

 

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