Philosophy Guest Speaker: Brian Burkhart

Philosophy Guest Speaker: Brian Burkhart

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When:
April 6, 2018 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
2018-04-06T15:00:00-04:00
2018-04-06T17:00:00-04:00
Where:
530 South Kedzie Hall
368 Farm Ln
East Lansing, MI 48823
USA
Cost:
Free
Philosophy Guest Speaker: Brian Burkhart @ 530 South Kedzie Hall | East Lansing | Michigan | United States
Professor Brian Burkhart, California State University, Northridge
Decoloniality and Indigenous Environmental Philosophy Through the Land
In this talk, I will articulate what I see as the interwoven threads of the nature and the power of coloniality in the attempted obscuring of being-in-the-land and being-from-the-land. It is the imaginary conception of being as a delocalized or kinless conqueror by which European locality can conceptualize an uprooting of itself and a replanting into Indigenous land–land that has also been reimagined as mere land rather than as the fundamental ontological capacity of kinship itself. Regrounding concepts of knowledge, being, morality, and even sovereignty in land, understood as the fundamental ontological capacity of kinship, disrupts some of the fundamental force of coloniality and opens a space for conceptualizing an environmental philosophy that mirrors existing Indigenous environmental concepts and practices.