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View the recording for this public event with Dr. ann-elise lewallen, Associate Professor, University of Victoria, Pacific and Asian Studies on Indigenous bodies of evidence and counter-mapping in the “green” nuclear archive.
Keynote: Dr. ann-elise lewallen, Associate Professor, Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria
Moderator: Professor Ramana, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Welcome Remarks: Tasha Carruthers, Student, Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, UBC
Bio: Dr. ann-elise lewallen is Associate Professor, University of Victoria, Pacific and Asian Studies. lewallen’s research focuses on transnational civil society, environmental justice, embodiment, and Indigenous communities in contemporary Japan and across Asia. In her first book, The Fabric of Indigeneity: Contemporary Ainu Identity and Gender in Colonial Japan (U. of New Mexico and SAR Press, 2016), lewallen analyzes Indigenous Ainu women’s use of cultural production to resist Japanese settler colonialism and women’s role in trans-generational cultural revival within the Ainu community. In her book-in-progress, Sovereign Bodies: Energy Colonialism and Defying the State in India and Japan, she analyzes civil society movements targeting Japan’s technological diplomacy in India’s growing energy sector juxtaposed with Indigenous communities’ use of Traditional Ecological Knowledge to defend their land. She adopts an environmental justice framework to collaborate with Indigenous communities through cultural mapping techniques in order to resist eco-cultural degradation of land, water, and Indigenous Knowledge/s.
Co-hosted by: UBC Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster; UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability
For information on future SPPGA events, visit sppga.ubc.ca/events/event
View the recording for this public event with Dr. ann-elise lewallen, Associate Professor, University of Victoria, Pacific and Asian Studies on Indigenous bodies of evidence and counter-mapping in the “green” nuclear archive.
Keynote: Dr. ann-elise lewallen, Associate Professor, Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria
Moderator: Professor Ramana, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Welcome Remarks: Tasha Carruthers, Student, Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, UBC
Bio: Dr. ann-elise lewallen is Associate Professor, University of Victoria, Pacific and Asian Studies. lewallen’s research focuses on transnational civil society, environmental justice, embodiment, and Indigenous communities in contemporary Japan and across Asia. In her first book, The Fabric of Indigeneity: Contemporary Ainu Identity and Gender in Colonial Japan (U. of New Mexico and SAR Press, 2016), lewallen analyzes Indigenous Ainu women’s use of cultural production to resist Japanese settler colonialism and women’s role in trans-generational cultural revival within the Ainu community. In her book-in-progress, Sovereign Bodies: Energy Colonialism and Defying the State in India and Japan, she analyzes civil society movements targeting Japan’s technological diplomacy in India’s growing energy sector juxtaposed with Indigenous communities’ use of Traditional Ecological Knowledge to defend their land. She adopts an environmental justice framework to collaborate with Indigenous communities through cultural mapping techniques in order to resist eco-cultural degradation of land, water, and Indigenous Knowledge/s.
Co-hosted by: UBC Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster; UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability
For information on future SPPGA events, visit sppga.ubc.ca/events/event
