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DESCRIPTION:\nScreening Dispossession as Orphanization: Decolonizing Mining through Collaborative Filmmaking in the Andes and the Amazon\nIn this talk\, I examine how Indigenous peoples in the Andes and the Amazon mobilize collaborative filmmaking as a form of resistance to mining dispossession\, focusing on documentaries that address the specificities of gold extraction and mercury poisoning. Through close analysis of selected scenes\, I elucidate the necropolitical dynamics of mining\, the persistent threats posed by mercury contamination\, and the diverse strategies of community resistance that emerge in response to extractive violence. I argue that Indigenous cosmopolitics plays a pivotal role in contemporary audiovisual narratives that contest hegemonic representations of mining while contributing to the decolonization of extractivist epistemologies and the defense of Indigenous territorial\, visual\, and cultural sovereignty in Abya Yala. Drawing on these films\, the work of Abya-Yalan Indigenous thinkers (Kopenawa 2013\; Krenak 2020)\, and Native scholars’ critique of settler colonialism (Speed 2017\; Gilio-Whitaker 2019)\, I propose the concept of orphanization of life. This concept reframes dispossession as a deliberate rupture of relationships among humans and more-than-human beings—an assault that exceeds material and anthropocentric frameworks. My work advances scholarship on Latin American environmental film focused on mining and contributes to debates that understand mining as a foundational mode of territorial occupation within the modern/colonial world system.\n\nBio:\nBarbara Galindo (she/her) is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-2026) in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California\, Riverside. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Latin American cultural production\, with an emphasis on the Andean and Amazonian regions.\n\nhttps://today.coloradocollege.edu/events/9564
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LOCATION:Max Kade Theatre
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SUMMARY:Job Talk: Candidate 2 Spanish & Portuguese
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