講題： Kin/Etics: Recognition, Relation, and "Renewable" Energy along the Lumbee River

講者 ：Dana E. Powell（Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Medical Humanities, Taipei Medical University）

時間：2024/10/30（三）15:00-17:00

地點：清華大學人社院C304教室

主辦單位：清華大學 人類學研究所

合辦單位：清華大學世界南島暨原住民族中心

演講摘要：

What relations among rivers, humans, other beings, and technologies, structure Indigenous recognition? And how might Indigenous recognition be related to health and wellbeing? This talk explores these broad questions by tracking environmental practices and epistemologies among members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina who care for their ancestral Lumbee River in a landscape shaped by industrialized agriculture fused with energy extraction. In the face of a settler-state led "green turn" toward projects like biogas and biomass development, a longstanding Lumbee movement for increased recognition and territorial justice confronts new adversaries in the name of "just transitions." Drawing on collaborative ethnography and methods of knowledge co-production, this talk explores how energy development in North Carolina's rural Coastal Plains has threatened Lumbee self-determination while, at the same time, activated new relations and innovations advancing Lumbee recognition.