[GEOG MAJORS] Canceled: Geography Colloquium Friday, January 26 at 3:30 -- Carbon Sovereignty, with Andrew Curley

[Nell Gross]

Dear all,

We have had to cancel Dr. Curley's colloquium due to illness. I hope to reschedule very soon.

All my best,

Megan Ybarra


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Please join us for our first Geography Colloquium in 2024, co-sponsored by the Center for American Indian & Indigenous Studies.

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For almost fifty years, coal dominated the Navajo economy. But in 2019 one of the Navajo Nation’s largest coal plants closed. In this talk, Andrew Curley, a member of the Navajo Nation, examines the history of coal development within the Navajo Nation, including why some Diné supported coal and the consequences of doing so. Dr. Curley explains the Navajo Nation’s strategic choices to use the coal industry to support its sovereignty as a path forward in the face of ongoing colonialism. Carbon Sovereignty demonstrates the mechanism of capitalism through colonialism and the construction of resource sovereignty, in both the Navajo Nation’s embrace and its rejection of a coal economy.

For the people of the Navajo Nation, energy sovereignty is dire and personal. Thanks to on-the-ground interviews with Diné coal workers, environmental activists, and politicians, Curley documents the real consequences of change as they happened. While some Navajo actors have doubled down for coal, others have moved toward transition. Curley argues that political struggles ultimately shape how we should understand coal, capitalism, and climate change. The rise and fall of coal magnify the nuance and complexity of change. Historical and contemporary issues intermingle in everyday life with lasting consequences.

Andrew Curley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Geography, Development & Environment at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, located on the territories of the Tohono O’odham, Yaqui and Apache peoples. He is Diné and a member of the Navajo Nation. Building on ethnographic research, his publications explain how Indigenous communities understand “resources,” infrastructure, and development in an era of energy transition and climate change. In 2018, he presented his research to the House Committee on Natural Resources as it considered the fate of the Navajo Generating Station. His book, Carbon Sovereignty, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2023.

For any access needs, please write to Megan Ybarra at mybarra at uw.edu<mailto:mybarra at uw.edu>


Megan Ybarra
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Associate Professor of Geography
Faculty Coordinator, Sustainability & Environmental Justice minor initiative
University of Washington
Website: www.meganybarra.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.meganybarra.com__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!iJgixN1zgS4J_RQIePftkXw5f4U0qPihbggODTo_IatcR5d7-RCuGEYWuUxoVCPAoEwNs36P96SKBQ$>

Latest publication: Ybarra, M (2023) "Indigenous to where? Homelands and nation (pueblo) in Indigenous Latinx studies.<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/rdcu.be/cZZt7__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jGyY3sNd6ri1dB5AL6pbOZ2o3nGSbfG-r6QygMMh75hrhNQL50_GV7_XxcUBkSdfb9Qn3VoEole5fNSp_ss8h8dHynQPBufZ$>" Latino Studies 21: 22 - 41.
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