Solidarity With the Non-human World: Postcolonial Explorations
Submitted by mount_d on Mon, 2011-01-03 12:37
Panel Abstract:
Deane Curtin writes that “we need to think about the ways social and environmental justice intersect, and we need to think about these issues in a truly integrated, global fashion” (ix). Our panel addresses this through the lens of postcolonialism. Nandita Ghosh's paper interrogates the eco-imperialist impulses of tourism in the postcolonial world by drawing on the works of Hawaiian poet Huanani Kay Trask and the publicity for an Indian waterpark. Jesse Arsenault's paper examines the political meanings of the absence of animals and the UN-sanctioned slaughter of dogs in post-genocide Rwanda. Dana Mount's paper takes up the theme of resistance to state power through an examination of environmental protest in a Rohinton Mistry novel. Taken together, these papers show the tied vulnerability of marginalized human communities and ecological subjects and gesture towards resilience and a politics of solidarity with the non-human world.
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Panel Abstract:
Deane Curtin writes that “we need to think about the ways social and environmental justice intersect, and we need to think about these issues in a truly integrated, global fashion” (ix). Our panel addresses this through the lens of postcolonialism. Nandita Ghosh's paper interrogates the eco-imperialist impulses of tourism in the postcolonial world by drawing on the works of Hawaiian poet Huanani Kay Trask and the publicity for an Indian waterpark. Jesse Arsenault's paper examines the political meanings of the absence of animals and the UN-sanctioned slaughter of dogs in post-genocide Rwanda. Dana Mount's paper takes up the theme of resistance to state power through an examination of environmental protest in a Rohinton Mistry novel. Taken together, these papers show the tied vulnerability of marginalized human communities and ecological subjects and gesture towards resilience and a politics of solidarity with the non-human world.
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