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X-WR-CALNAME:Hispanic Studies Lecture Series: Barbara Galindo\, Dispossessi
 on as Orphanization" 
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DESCRIPTION:The Media & Cultural Studies Department\n\nBarbara Galindo\n\n 
 \n\nScreening Dispossession as Orphanization: Collaborative Filmmaking and
  Indigenous Resistance to Lithium Mining in the Andes\n\n \n\nThe Andean s
 alt flats in Argentina\, Chile\, and Bolivia are becoming critical sites f
 or mining in the global race toward energy transition. This region has att
 racted the attention of transnational corporations vying for lithium\, a c
 rucial mineral needed for electric storage batteries and promoted as essen
 tial for a hydrocarbon-free future. However\, companies often target Indig
 enous and Maroon peoples’ lands to extract lithium through methods that 
 can lead to water depletion and pollution\, exposing mining as a settler c
 olonial genocidal technology of dispossession. In this talk\, I will discu
 ss how the Kolla and Atacama Indigenous peoples of northern Argentina use 
 collaborative film and video to resist lithium mining. By focusing on the 
 unique aspects of lithium extraction in the salt flats\, I place the Kolla
  and Atacama’s cultural activism within the broader context of other mar
 ginalized communities facing similar challenges in the expanding lithium r
 ush across South America. I argue that Indigenous cosmopolitics plays a cr
 ucial role in audiovisual narratives that aim to decolonize modern Western
  mining practices and defend Indigenous sovereignty in Latin America/Abya 
 Yala. I draw on these narratives\, the works of Abya-Yalan Indigenous thin
 kers (Fasabi\, 2021\; Kopenawa\, 2013\; Krenak\, 2020)\, and Native schola
 rs’ critique of settler colonialism (Whyte\, 2016\; Speed\, 2017\; Gilio
 -Whitaker\, 2019) to propose the concept of orphanization of life. This co
 ncept reframes dispossession as an assault that extends beyond materialist
 ic and anthropocentric perspectives. My work contributes to debates that e
 mphasize the mine’s historical significance as one of the primary forms 
 of territorial occupation\, alongside the plantation\, within the modern/c
 olonial world system (Robins\, 2011\; Gómez-Barris\, 2017\; Aráoz\, 2018
 \, 2023).
LOCATION:Humanities & Social Sciences Building\, 2423 B
SUMMARY:Hispanic Studies Lecture Series: Barbara Galindo\, Dispossession as
  Orphanization" 
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.ucr.edu/event/hispanic-studies-lecture-series-
 barbara-galindo-screening-dispossession-as-orphanization-nov-20th
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