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"Lecturer:
Dr. ann-elise lewallen, Visiting Research Fellow, RIHN, and Associate Professor, Pacific & Asian Studies, University of Victoria
Title: Abundance in the midst of Polycrisis: Indigenous Science and Ontological Relations from Japan to India
Language: English
Abstract:
Across Asia, Indigenous relations with multispecies kin have curated geospatial boundaries and nurtured abundance. “Calendars we had none, it was spring when herring came,” penned Ainu poet Iboshi Hokuto. Heroki, the Ainu term for “herring,” is inscribed across present-day Hokkaido. Yet, in 1930 Hokkaido’s herring population, and its extractivist settler economy, collapsed. In central India, the madhuca tree has long nourished Indigenous Gond communities as a traditional food, its bark a source of traditional medicine. These madhuca trees and agricultural fields were submerged by Narmada Dam waters in 1991. Faced with polycrisis (settler colonialism, climate crisis and nuclear proliferation) how have Indigenous Asian ontologies enabled refusals of extractive settler modernity and pushed for re-centering Indigenous Science? As Candace Fujikane argues, moving toward a planetary future demands a shift from “capitalist economies of scarcity” to “Indigenous economies of abundance.” Yet for ecosystem-dependent communities whose environments have been transmogrified by toxic pollution, dams, and hazardous waste, embracing abundance may require learning to manage “alterlife” (Murphy). Drawing upon thinkers such as Sharon Stephens, Leeanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Bruno Latour, this paper asks how might centering Indigenous ontologies and refusal of extractive logics open space for renewed Indigenous expressions of abundance? "
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