Crafting Black Ecologies 1: Makings
Type: Virtual Panel
Day: 3/1/2022
Start Time: 11:20 AM
End Time: 12:40 PM
Theme: Climate Justice
Sponsor Group(s):
Black Geographies Specialty Group
, Latinx Geographies Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Naya Jones
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Chairs(s):
Naya Jones, University of California Santa Cruz
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Description:
How has crafting been a site of Black ecological knowledge(s)? How has the making and use of everyday tools, art, sacred and ritual objects, and material structures not only required ecological knowledge but cultivated the same? For this panel conversation, we approach these questions from the crossroads of black ecologies, critical studies of craft and material culture, and art-based methods. Inspired by recent articulations of craft in broad terms, we understand craft in its more conventional definition, such as applying and learning skills through manual and/or embodied manufacture, such as quilting, as well as digital craft, architecture, and the (re)making of material landscapes (Editors 2017). We seek to approach Black material culture beyond essentialist readings of blackness, retentions (alone), and place. What are the implications of environmental injustice and climate change for land, plants, and other life that render Black craft possible? What are possibilities, given the intimate relationships that Black material culture often maintains with “more-than-human” life, including ways of knowing that understand nature as agentic? We are also deeply interested in how we come to this work. Many of our panelists are Black artist-scholars, makers, or critical planners who bridge theory and practice. We explore what possibilities emerge - in theory, method, and practice - from approaching black ecologies through a critical frame of craft and material culture.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
Role | Participant |
Panelist | Jennifer Steverson |
Panelist | Ayana Omilade Flewellen University of California Riverside |
Panelist | Naya Jones University of California Santa Cruz |
Panelist | Morgan Vickers University of California Berkeley |
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Crafting Black Ecologies 1: Makings
Description
Virtual Panel
Contact the Primary Organizer
Naya Jones - njones6@ucsc.edu