Mediatic Empire | "Our Ocean is Not a Sacrifice Zone: Deepening Climate Justice Against Extraction" with Tiara Na'puti

This lecture is part of Mediatic Empire: Critical Inquiries into Environment, Technology, and Media Cultures, a five-part public lecture series organized by UBC’s Department of English Language & Literatures and Green College. View the full series schedule.

TALK ABSTRACT

This lecture centres Indigenous responses to climate change by focusing on a US proposal for deep-sea mining in an area bordering the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument and the entangled forms of economic and scientific thinking about the Mariana Trench as a site for extraction. It considers how Indigenous Pacific…