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Call for Papers Theme: Land Back Subtitle: Indigenous Landscapes of Resurgence and Freedom Type: 2021 Symposium Institution: Dumbarton Oaks Location: Washington, DC (USA) Date: 30.4.–1.5.2021 Deadline: 1.8.2020 __________________________________________________ Relations to land are a fundamental component of Indigenous worldviews, politics, and identity. The violent disruption of land relations is a defining feature of colonialism and imperialism; colonial governments have territorialized Indigenous lands and bodies and undermined Indigenous political authority through gendered and racialized hierarchies of difference. Consequently, Indigenous resistance and visions for justice and liberation are bound up with land and land-body relationships that challenge colonial power. “Land back” has become a slogan for Indigenous land protectors. Relations to land are foundational to political transformations envisioned and mobilized through Indigenous resurgence praxes. In this symposium, we aim to highlight the many ways Indigenous peoples understand and practice land relations for political resurgence and freedom across the Americas, by refusing colonial territorializations of Indigenous land and life-making practices. Our intention is to place Indigenous practices of freedom within the particularities of Indigenous place-based laws, cosmologies, and diplomacies, while also taking a hemispheric approach to understanding how Indigeneity is shaped across colonial borders. We seek papers from both emerging and established scholars, artists, community organizers, and design and planning practitioners that highlight how Indigenous peoples are reconceptualizing land relations to renew Indigenous environmental knowledge. We welcome contributions focused on contemporary engagements with land as well as papers that foreground the historical conditions that inform resistance and resurgence today. We are particularly interested in papers working at the intersection of Indigenous studies and the fields associated with landscape studies, including geography, political ecology, landscape architecture, planning, art history, and archaeology. We invite contributions that center Indigenous resistance and resurgence across various topics: - Indigenous law and ecological knowledge, for instance as expressed through concepts such as sumak kawsay or mino-bimaadiziwin, and their relation to environmental justice - Approaches to landscape architecture, planning, or environmental design that foreground Indigenous knowledge or ecological practices, with potential focus on participatory design practice, community building through design, environmental justice, foodways, and climate change - Indigenous conceptualizations of gender and sexuality and relationships between land/water/bodies, or that center Indigenous women and queer, Two-Spirit, and trans bodies as political orders to explore how Indigenous landscape practices are connected to gender variance, queerness, and sex sovereignty, or how the erotic encourages decolonial resistance and futures - Collective struggles for land and space and shared visions of liberation and freedom activated by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) practices of resistance, abolition, resurgence, and freedom Submission Requirements - Submit a 500-word abstract and curriculum vitae as a single PDF to landsc...@doaks.org by August 1, 2020. Please use the file-naming convention: Last Name_CFP 2021 Symposium. Put “CFP 2021 Symposium” in the subject line. - Submissions by more than one author are welcome, but travel reimbursement and accommodations can only be offered to the principal author. - Invited speakers will be asked to commit to their participation in the GLS 2021 symposium and should plan to attend April 30–May 1, 2021. Symposiarchs: Michelle Daigle and Heather Dorries, faculty in the Department of Geography & Planning and Centre for Indigenous Studies, University of Toronto Website of the Symposium: https://www.doaks.org/research/garden-landscape/scholarly-activities/land-back Contact: Thaïsa Way, Program Director Garden & Landscape Studies Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 1703 32nd Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 USA Tel: +1 202 3396461 Email: landsc...@doaks.org __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
