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Land Back: The Movement for Indigenous Rights and Decolonization throughout the Americas
From Chile to the Arctic Circle, native communities have been partnering with allies to protect sacred places. In this presentation, Dr. Campbell speaks from personal experience collaborating with Indigenous groups in the Brazilian Amazon and in New England as they work towards recognition, restoration, and decolonization of their homelands. Registration is required. A Zoom invitation will be emailed to registrants two hours before the event. Teens and Adults.
- Date:
- Thursday, November 18, 2021
- Time:
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Library Branch:
- Virtual Event
- Categories:
- Virtual Program Presentation/Performance
- Audience:
- Adults Older Adults Teens
This lecture is made possible by George Mason University’s Mason Speakers. For further information contact https://masonspeakers.gmu.edu/ or call 703-993-8846.
Dr. Jeremy M. Campbell is a cultural anthropologist who studies land conflicts and environmental change in the Brazilian Amazon. His research explores how Indigenous practices of ownership and belonging are mobilized to counter socio-ecological devastation in the region. Campbell is the author of the award-winning book Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in Amazonia (Univ. of Washington Press, 2015), and since 2014 has collaborated on land-demarcation efforts with the Munduruku people and other traditional communities in Brazil. His academic work has been published in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Boletín de Antropología, The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, among other places. His research has been supported by the National Geographic Society, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Fulbright-Hays Program, and has also been featured in international press outlets such as the Guardian, BBC-Brasil, and Mongabay. Through his work at Mason's Institute for a Sustainable Earth, Dr. Campbell facilitates research partnerships between Mason faculty and communities in pursuit of sustainability and environmental justice locally and globally.