Scarcity Colloquium with Carl Wennerlind
Extractive Media held a colloquium April 5, 2023 with Professor Wennerlind, where he introduced and discussed his forthcoming book, co-authored with Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2023).
“What do we talk about when we talk about extractivism?” Colloquium with Jennifer Wenzel
The Extractive Media working group met on 8 March 2023 with Professor Wenzel. She led the group in a discussion of some recent work on extractivism, both her own recent article co-authored with Imre Szeman and selection from Stephanie LeMenanger's 2013 book Living Oil.
Jennifer Wenzel and Imre Szerman, "What do we talk about when we talk about extractivism?" Textual Practice 35, no. 3 (2021): 505-523.
Stephanie LeMenanger, Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Ana Ozaki in Conversation at Princeton | Spatial Storytelling: Boats, Beaches, and Bairros
Spring 2023 Mellon Forum: Spatial Storytelling // April 11 with Ana Ozaki and Keisha-Khan Perry
Boats, Beaches, and Bairros
Apr 11, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location: Princeton School of Architecture and Zoom
Event Description
Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment
Spring 2023 || Spatial Storytelling
Boats, Beaches, and Bairros with Keisha-Khan Perry, Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania and Ana Ozaki, Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities
This is a hybrid event. Attend in person at the School of Architecture (lunch boxes available while supplies last), or register for the Zoom webinar: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cr7UGrwqTXSqn5F-HiWufg
Black feminist scholar bell hooks (1952-2021) gave us innumerable conceptual tools to understand the complexities of race, gender, and place. Her critical essay "Homeplace: A Site of Resistance," first published in the 1990 Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural politics, illustrates how the homeplace can represent spaces of oppression as well as liberation. In this presentation, I narrate stories from coastal cities across the Americas to explore the neighborhoods where the cultural imagination and radical politics flourish even as poor and people of color experience the brutality of white supremacist violence and spatial displacement. In hooks' formulation, the oppressed make home in inhospitable places, resist the gendered racial domination of space, and demand a sense of cultural and political belonging. I tell the stories of how social movement activists fight to keep beachlands as Black homespaces, where they have forged communities and survived amidst the violence for generations.
The Spring 2023 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment is kindly sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the Princeton University Humanities Council, Program in Latin American Studies, Center for Collaborative History, Departments of Art & Archaeology and English, HMEI, PIIRS, SPIA, and the School of Architecture.
Mellon Forum events are free and open to the public. Boxed lunches are available while supplies last.
Ana Ozaki in Conversation at Princeton | Of Milk, Blood, and Bones
Fall 2022 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment / RACE EMPIRE ENVIRONMENT
Of Milk, Blood, and Bones: Brazil’s Colonial and Postcolonial Plantation "Big House"
with Ana Ozaki, Princeton-Mellon Fellow, and Isadora Mota, History
October 25 at 12pm EST 2022
Attend this discussion in Betts Auditorium, abiding by University event guidelines. Box lunches are provided while supplies last.
Or register in advance for this Zoom webinar:
https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iBApUPu0RxyRoQK1mTrkQg
Gilberto Freyre's influential book Casa Grande e Senzala [The Masters and the Slaves] (1933) has been an international reference in Brazil's historical racial relations. In this equally historiographical and fictional study, a benevolent rendering of the plantation's "big house" stands for Brazil, that is, as the root of its modern, exceptional, and multiculturalist society. In this view, colonial domesticity's openness to "masters" and "slaves" nurtured interracial relations, miscegenation, and transculturation. According to Freyre, spatial practices such as implanted bones and blood in building foundations and breast milk ties between white boys and their Black wet nurses embodied some of Brazil's hybridity matrices.
In this presentation, Ozaki will analyze these historiographical and spatial tropes to contend how the plantation permeated modern frameworks of territory and domesticity. She will argue that Brazil's nation-building process was contingent upon bodily accumulations to forge perceptions of racial fluidity, tropical adaptability, and alternative modernity to Europe's and the US's binary racial dynamics.
The Mellon Forum is sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, Humanities Council, Center for Collaborative History, HMEI, PIIRS, PLAS, Department of Art + Archaeology, Department of English, and the School of Architecture.