Planetary Extractions Symposium

April 16-17

In the midst of extreme weather events, rising seas, and massive biodiversity loss on a warming planet, our symposium Planetary Extractions intervenes in growing academic and public interest in the environmental humanities, climate justice, and the Anthropocene from the intellectual and political perspective of critical ethnic studies. Planetary Extractions addresses extraction and extractivism, a framework that emerges from Latin Americanist scholar Alberto Acosta on the intensive exploitation of land and labor that begins with the European colonization of the Americas, Africa, and Asia. 

Through Planetary Extractions, we gather scholars, artists, and activists to think through modes of knowledge-production and collaboration that are not extractive within the university, an institutional form created through the extraction and commodification of land, life, and sovereign Indigenous intellectual traditions. Composed of two plenary conversations and three panels, this symposium will engage diverse groups of faculty, post-docs, and students at Dartmouth and create a space dedicated to generating new, interdisciplinary collaborations around the study of race, Indigeneity, and the environment. Open to all.  Please register at https://sites.dartmouth.edu/planetaryextractions/