34.024 - Curriculum of Conquest and Borders: Land-Based Violences and Land-Based Relationships

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Borders of lands under settler-colonial domination are tumultuous spaces fraught with tensions and violence committed on, and committed over, land and bodies over notions of belonging. Yet borders are more than socially constructed and politically sustained boundaries between lands and people, they are also material places that are inhabited by fleshy, feeling, agentive people with deeply rooted and rich histories in relationship to the place, land, and to the power dynamics securing territories founded on ongoing colonial violence. Simultaneously recognizing the conflicts in these relationships with the materiality of contested land and violences imposed over them, this panel engages with the creative resistances possible for place based education in the borderlands.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

Chairs

• Veronica Nelly Velez, Western Washington University

• Julie Gorlewski, Virginia Commonwealth University

• K. Wayne Yang, University of California - San Diego

• Eve Tuck, University of Toronto

Presenting Authors

• Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Arizona State University

• Dolores Calderon, Western Washington University

• Cinthya M. Saavedra, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Papers

• Sand Creek Meets #blacklivesmatter: Decolonial Collective Remembrance - Sara Chase, Berkeley University of California

Discussant

• Alison Jones, University of Auckland