Human Rights and Social Justice: Global Indigenous Knowledge Movements
Question:
Indigenous, Black Peoples and People of Color in societies colonized by Westerncentric countries despite having many things in common have kept distant from each other, divided and fragmented. However, in different times there have been organizations that articulate conversations and alliances between dehumanized and demonized peoples and other beings (trees, mountains, volcanoes, oceans, animals, plants, etc.)
How do the authors below thread some of the articulations of survival and hope of human and non-human beings, despite tensions, fragmentations, and divisions? Apply one specific insight and example (properly cited) in each reading to build up your answer.
Assigned readings:
Latif, Nadia. 2012. “It Was Better During the War”: Narratives of Everyday Violence in a Palestinian Refugee Camp. Feminist Review. Vol. 101.
Ware, Syrus Marcus and Giselle Dias (Niigaanii Zhaawshk0 Giizhigokwe). 2020. “Revolution and Resurgence: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex through Black and Indigenous Solidarity,” in Diverlus, Rodney, Sandy Hudson, and Syrus Marcus Ware, eds., Until We are Free. Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada Chapter 3.
Lakhani, Nina. 2020. “The Indigenous Awakening,”
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Lakhani, Nina. 2020. “Afterword,” in Lakhani, Nina, Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet. London/New York: Verso.
