Colonial Destruction, Past and Present: Plunder, Waste, and Preservation
Channel: ICCTP
Date: 2020-10-19

Colonial Destruction, Past and Present: Plunder, Waste, and Preservation
Workshop
September 25, 2020 

Malcom Ferdinand (CNRS), Jumana Manna (artist), Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (Bard College), moderated by Natalia Brizuela (UC Berkeley)

A conversation about environmental and colonial destructions, as well as the relationship between them. The participants (in their roles as artists, scholars, or activists) address the planetary crisis of our times in its relationship to past and present practices of plunder, waste-making, and preservation. The conversation aims to articulate a future open to multiple forms of life outside the systems and histories of racial, extractivist capitalism.

Malcom Ferdinand was born and raised in Martinique, and is a researcher in political science at National Scientific Research Center in France (based at the University Paris Dauphine). His research draws on the fields of political philosophy, political ecology and postcolonial theory with a particular focus on the Caribbean region. 

Jumana Manna is a visual artist working primarily with film and sculpture. Her work explores how power is articulated through relationships, often focusing on the body and materiality in relation to narratives of nationalism, and histories of place. 

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard. Her research centers around infrastructure, discard studies, science and environment, climate change, colonialism and postcoloniality, austerity, the “sharing economy,” property, housing, the Middle East, and Europe. 

Natalia Brizuela is Associate Professor in the departments of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese at UC Berkeley, where she is also a Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator for the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs.

Presented by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Berkeley.

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