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How do artistic explorations of topics such as migrant labour, international students, and offshore extraction industries illuminate the extra-national ecologies of racial capitalism and settler colonialism? How do Canadian environmentalism and/or ecocriticism engage or obscure extra-national issues of social/environmental justice? How do environmental, industry and energy policies naturalize and regulate cross-border relations in support of settler colonialism and racial capitalism? Read more.
Presentations discussing suburban space, environment, and settler colonialism in recent Canadian Fiction. Read More.
Extra-Canadian Ecologies | ALECC Conference | Wilfrid Laurier University | June 2024
This panel focuses on what might be metaphorically described as the externalities—extra-national side effects—of the production (ecological, cultural, political, technological, economic) of Canada as a settler colonial nation. More broadly, it aims to illuminate material relations that exceed the country’s territorial boundaries through atmospheric, oceanic, and other planetary systems, as well as the offshoring of ecological hazards and globalized, racialized markets in labour and resource appropriation, which often have devastating ecological effects elsewhere, especially in the Global South. Read More
Suburb Nation | ACCUTE Conference | McGill University | June 2024
If Canada is a suburban nation, what are its suburban stories? What dreams and diasporas land immigrant communities in suburbs? How has the mid-twentieth century popular imaginary of the suburb as a white middle-class, automobiled enclave been written otherwise across varied experiences of racialization, diaspora, and generation — and in the era of fossil-fuelled climate change? What histories are disrupted, and which are forged in suburban lives and spaces? What other places and social lives are relationally entangled in the suburbs — in social connections, in memory, in colonial displacements, and in material economies of labour, production, consumption, waste, and emissions? How are suburban arrivals and departures — and pasts and futures — narrated? What poetic practices engage suburban form and its social relations?
This three-day panel at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) is on methods of reading literary texts that illuminate the racialized dimensions of the environment and climate change. Read More.