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To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s award-winning and widely influential book, The Sea Around Us, an interdisciplinary group of Indigenous culture bearers, scientists, artists, and ocean storytellers addresses the legacy of DDT+, industrial, and radioactive waste dumping off the Southern California coast. As a visionary marine biologist, Carson represents the science of the ocean alongside an ethic of accountability to what she termed our “mother sea.” To Carson, the ocean is a teacher, agent, and ancestor carried in our briny veins.
This panel engages a wide range of perspectives about the cultures of ocean knowledge including Indigenous stewardship, the history and science behind the contamination, its impact on ocean ecosystems and marine mammals, and how collectively we might chart a path toward healing and accountability through diverse practices of caring for the deep.
Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
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To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s award-winning and widely influential book, The Sea Around Us, an interdisciplinary group of Indigenous culture bearers, scientists, artists, and ocean storytellers addresses the legacy of DDT+, industrial, and radioactive waste dumping off the Southern California coast. As a visionary marine biologist, Carson represents the science of the ocean alongside an ethic of accountability to what she termed our “mother sea.” To Carson, the ocean is a teacher, agent, and ancestor carried in our briny veins.
This panel engages a wide range of perspectives about the cultures of ocean knowledge including Indigenous stewardship, the history and science behind the contamination, its impact on ocean ecosystems and marine mammals, and how collectively we might chart a path toward healing and accountability through diverse practices of caring for the deep.
Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
Subscribe to the Hammer Museum's channel:
youtube.com/channel/UCjcgouIXgFyxJgAPbVE6dlg?sub_confirmation=1
