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...Bettina Judd Copyright © 2013 by Smith College 2013 BETTINA JUDD Indigenousto No Land blackfemalebodiesinhabittheliminalspaceofdeath h.s. you say i belong not to this nor that but to the sea yes. but i cannot swim yes. [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2013, vol. n, no. 2, p. 240] ©...

... to Uncle Sam's land (Bradford 1886, 28). If modern scholars recognize Tubman as a women's suffragist, could we also not imagine Tubman holding the same pro-woman sentiment when seeking to liveon the "Queen's soil" in Canada? Perhaps this is just superficial conjecture; nonetheless, it deserves...

..., and the occasional pinyon-juniper treethat Belnap had seen the year before no longer existed; it had become overgrown with 2-foot-high Eurasian cheatgrass. "I was stunned," says Belnap, "It was like the aliens had landed." (Enserink 1999) One of the ironies in the world today is that in this era of globalization...

...Ina Knobblock Abstract This article is a Sámi feminist analysis of large-scale resource extraction in Sábme, the transnational Sámi territory spanning northern Fenno-Scandinavia and the Murmansk peninsula. Specifically, it centers on the mining of Indigenous land within the borders of the Swedish...

... the late 1960s and 1970s, Mink challenged the use of the Pacific lands, waters, and peoples as sites of military experimentation, subject to nuclear and chemical testing as well as war games. Mink’s political worldview, shaped by her experiences and understanding of the interconnectedness between human...

... these short four pages to guide her fictional retelling of this historical moment. Other scenes illuminate the ways Black women of the nineteenth century were deeply connected to the nature surrounding them, emphasizing the unique relationship Black and Brown women have had with the land through natural...

... occupation of tribal land. By contextualizing this story within scholarly work on subalternity, forms of colonial and postcolonial counterinsurgency, and the territorial securitization of national interiors, this article argues that the postcolonial state animates its authority in tribal people’s everyday...

... of menstruation, miscarriages, hemorrhages, and womb images alongside death suggest that relying on a relationship among blood, land, and identity is always already limiting, even as the novel maintains that such relationships remain the best hope for resisting oppression. The lack of a future in the text...

...Nancy Marie Mithlo Abstract Despite the prevailing acceptance of homogenized global sensibilities in media productions, many American Indian and other indigenous artists continue to articulate a sovereign, bounded, and discrete identity based on land, family, and memory. Both material (embodied...

...Keisha-Khan Y. Perry Abstract In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, rarely are black women, especially poor black women, considered leaders of social movements, much less political theorists. While Afro-Brazilian women are at the very heart of the struggle for urban housing and land rights...

... care, as well as a home and a place of dignity in the world's history to millions of Black/Afro-descendent women. We need to conspire to secure access to adequate care and treatment to Black/Afro-descendent women living with HIV, and to preserve the land of deracinated women. Black feminism and all...

...Nancy Marie Mithlo Abstract Despite the prevailing acceptance of homogenized global sensibilities in media productions, many American Indian and other indigenous artists continue to articulate a sovereign, bounded, and discrete identity based on land, family, and memory. Both material (embodied...

... of savarna feminists’ historical-material relation to caste. Narrating regional caste histories of savarna Bengalis, the author shows that her practice of writing castelessly is founded on material structures of power—historically claimed monopolies over culture and education, land, labor, and political...

... that is a methodological pivot for conducting trauma-based gender-based violence research in a decolonial context, which calls for an end to narratives of trauma that are severed from the settler colonial project of Native land dispossession and genocide. Works Cited Anzaldúa Gloria . 1987 . Borderlands / La...

..., a framework that uses the lens of colonialism, land theft, erasure, and genocide to reframe the Assyrian experience as a remnant of the colonial global order. 3 While I currently live on Coast Salish Lands, my family and I have spent the majority of our life in Canada on the traditional territories...

..., their involvement in environmental and human rights struggles, and the global stakes involved in the recognition and protection of the traditional territorial claims and land-use practices of Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon and beyond. Transcription collaboratively done by Smith College students...

... with landed status in Canada. Taken together, the artists’ works offer fruitful opportunities to think through difficult questions about power, history, and representation on Turtle Island. Both Nielsen and Park engage “pedagogies of the Sacred” to honor ancestral traditions and spiritual practices while...

... sovereignty. The authors emphasize matriarchal knowledge transmission: women are leading efforts to reclaim autonomy over bodies and lands. The authors also call attention to intercultural collaboration as a source of innovation in both contemporary culture making and in pedagogy. [email protected]...

... more than 70 percent of the land at independence, the most difficult problem was that ofland-the most critical resource of the postcolonial Zimbabwean society. To resolve it, a deal called the Lancaster House Agreement (see appendix page 19)was reached in 1979 between the new ruling class of Zimbabwe...

... she has paraded with the Aboriginal land right's flag alongside the Australian, and she has been put under strong pressure by Aboriginal activists to boycott the games in support of Aboriginal protests. As a white (or, as I would explain these days, Anglo-Celtic-East European Australian of five or six...