Dipesh Chakrabarty | The Nomos of the Earth to Gaia: Land as a Category in Postcolonial and Anthropocene Histories
Best Buy Theater, 4th Floor, Northrop University of Minnesota
Free and open to the publicThis lecture will discuss how our understanding of the category "land" shifts as and when we try bring into conversation the concerns of postcolonial histories and those generated by discussions of climate change and the Anthropocene.
This talk presented as a part of the 2018 Sawyer Seminar. It is additionally cosponsored by the departments of History, Political Science, and American Indian Studies.