May 20, 2021
This conversation will focus on grounds “broken” by processes of extraction, contamination and disturbance. Rather than discrete sites of large-operation “natural resource” extraction, the emphasis is on systems of capitalism and colonial violence as manifest in the physicality of particular places, as well as in the bodies of those most exposed to toxification and cumulative risk. Finally, this culminating conversation interrogates what it means to live and die on the grounds we (humans) have profoundly altered.
MODERATOR: Vittoria Di Palma
Associate Professor, USC School of Architecture
Speaker: Cara Despain
Artist
speaker: shourideh Molavi
Lead Israel/Palestine Researcher, Forensic Architecture
Speaker: Dvera Saxton
Associate Professor, Anthropology, CSU Fresno
SPEAKER: Kathryn Yusoff
Professor of Inhuman Geography, Queen Mary University of London