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Mapping Potawatomi Futures – Research Talk by Dr. Blaire Morseau

All social movements are forms of futurity. Broadly speaking, futurity or futurities are prospective events or stages of being. Resisting undesired conditions of life experienced in the present for a more desirable future configures every protest in human history regardless of whether or not they are seen as successful. In this talk, Dr. Morseau will discuss the multiplicity of potential futures imagined and enacted by Indigenous peoples through traditional knowledge and prophecy in Indigenous-made science fiction and eco-politics leveraged by activists. These alternative futures depart from the versions of the future posited by settler society in which Indigenous communities are vulnerable, helpless or completely irrelevant to imagined future-scapes. Ecological revitalizations currently underway by Neshnabe communities in the Great Lakes region are more than just reactionary projects responding to crises. Instead, these actions when taken together, form and activate unique versions of alternative futures which position Indigenous peoples at the center, agentive in shaping their shared futures with all our relations.

Date

Dec 5, 2022
Expired!

Time

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location

Wells B-243
Wells B-243, East Lansing, Michigan