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Religious Multiplicity in the Environmental Humanities Classroom: A Letter to My Students

Amanda Baugh
August 10, 2023

A major goal of this class is to help us identify and challenge the unmarked assumptions that have led to such limited notions of who can be an environmentalist and what can count as environmentalism.

Resilience: Ecology and Morality on Climate-Vulnerable Coasts

Series: Theories of Land

Hillary Kaell and Phillip Campanile
August 8, 2023

Although more studies of religion are reproducing resilience as an empirical category, there is little debate about what it means and how it is being used.

Enacting Indigenous Ontologies

Series: Theories of Land

Jeremy Sorgen
August 3, 2023

Settler moves to innocence exonerate settler cultures from responsibility without having to forfeit privilege and power.

Decolonizing the Tabernacle

Series: Theories of Land

Elisha Chi
August 2, 2023August 3, 2023

What does it mean for Jesus to be materially and physically supported by land soaked in the blood of enslavement and genocide?

Living on Indigenous Lands: (Re)Considering Relations with Occupied Lands

Series: Theories of Land

Abel R. Gomez
July 27, 2023July 27, 2023

Considering our relations and responsibilities to land invites us to make other choices, ones that might guide us, perhaps, towards being in good relations with the land and the Indigenous peoples of that place.

What Kind of Tradition is Black and Radical?

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity

Vincent Lloyd
July 26, 2023August 31, 2023

The Black radical tradition is unified not by empirical facts about people or histories but by a shared commitment to struggle against the paradigm of domination (slavery and its afterlives).

Black Women and the Political Performance for Environmental, Territorial, and Human Rights on the Pacific Coast of Colombia

Series: Theories of Land

Kaché H. Claytor
July 25, 2023August 10, 2023

Black women have been at the forefront of authoring pathways to futurity through their care work, spiritual customs, performance cultures, aesthetic practices, philosophies, and activist movements.

More Than a Land of Open Graves: How the Sonoran Desert Refuses Capture

Series: Theories of Land

Barbara Sostaita
July 20, 2023

The desert’s sacred energies are an unruly affront to enforcement agents who seek possession or mastery.

Introduction to Theories of Land

Series: Theories of Land

Dana Lloyd
July 20, 2023August 17, 2023

We need to listen to the land itself in order to theorize better, in order to live better.

The Personal and Political Gendering of Black Love

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity

Traci C. West
July 18, 2023July 19, 2023

Cleaver’s perspective may exemplify the struggle for freedom from anti-black racist and capitalist domination. But it also stresses a certain kind of domination of Black women by maintaining a black androcentric worldview as freeing.

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