CEE Reading Group: Indigenous and Solar Futures
Session 6: Indigenous and Solar Futures
This virtual reading group meets monthly for 90 minutes on Zoom (links will be provided to registered participants). During the first 30 minutes, the group will discuss readings based on pre-circulated discussion questions. During the second 30 minutes, participants will spend silent time crafting a creative response (e.g., drawing, collage, knitting, poetry, etc.) to the readings. During the final 30 minutes, participants will share and discuss their creative responses (this creative response format is inspired by the “Extracts” reading group at UCD Humanities Institute).
Sessions will be moderated by Dr Camille-Mary Sharp and/or guest moderators.
Find the reading list below.
- Kinder, J. B. (2021). Solar Infrastructure as Media of Resistance, or, Indigenous Solarities against Settler Colonialism. South Atlantic Quarterly, 120(1), 63–76.
- LaDuke, W. (2016). Recovering Power to Slow Climate Change. In Recovering the sacred: The power of naming and claiming (pp. 237-253). Haymarket.
- Balkan, S. (15 Nov. 2022). Can solarpunk save the world? Public Books.
- Creative case study 1: Ganzeer. (2023). The Solar Grid (excerpt). In Diamanti, J., Moore, A., & Howe, C. (Eds.), Solarities: Elemental encounters and refractions (pp. 191-206). punctum books.
- See also: Batty, D. (20 July 2016). From revolutionary art to dystopian comics: Ganzeer on Snowden, censorship and global warming. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/20/ganzeers-graphic-novel-future-dystopia-recent-history-egypt-the-solar-girl
- Creative case study 2: Wise, A.C. (2018). A catalogue of sunlight at the end of the world. In Wagner, P. & Wieland, B.C. (Eds.), Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation. Upper Rubber Boot Books. Available at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/wise_11_18_reprint/
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