Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

Co-organised by Dr. Jill Didur (Concordia University, Montreal) and Priscilla Jolly (Concordia University, Montreal)

This panel examines how the ongoing legacy of plantation epistemologies and violence are made visible, critiqued, resisted, and imagined ‘otherwise’ through different modes of storytelling (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, visual culture, digital culture, popular media, and policy documents). Taking up Haraway’s call to ‘story otherwise’ for ‘Earthly survival’ (2016), we invite papers that explore …