The 2021 Spanish & Portuguese Colloquium invites Tracy Devine Guzmán to present her talk entitled, "To Keep the Sky from Falling: The Epic of Indigenous Environmentalism in Brazil".
This presentation aims to contextualize this paradox in historical terms, exploring how the ongoing social and political movement against bolsonarismo forms just part of a long and complex tale of Indigenous-led battles against unchecked deforestation and extractivism. Drawing on canonical texts, archived state documents, and individual testimonies, Guzmán argues that as a citizen whose individual and collective wellbeing is intimately tied to the wellbeing of the non-human world, Indigenous peoples characterized "ecology" as a fight for survival long before the Anthropocene gained traction in academic or popular parlance.
Tracy Devine Guzmán is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami. Her research and teaching interests are intellectual history, political theory, and cultural production, with an emphasis on critical race studies, ethnicity, and indigeneity in Brazil and the Andes. She is the author of many scholarly articles and the monograph, Native and National in Brazil: Indigeneity after independence (University of North Carolina Press, 2013). She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil. A selection of Dr. Guzmán's work is available at her Bepress website.
Friday, February 19, 2021
2:20 - 3:40 PM
Zoom Link: https://osu.zoom.us/j/91790619259?pwd=c01LdzROWldzYkJZbzd5d09jVjMydz09
Meeting ID: 917 9061 9259
Password: 207707
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