In this conversation, Juanita Sundberg will reflect on her longstanding work on the more-than-human dimensions of border enforcement, bringing the insights of feminist political ecology and decolonial theory to bear on questions of nature conservation, border security, and militarization. Taking inspiration from Indigenous and peasant movements across the globe, she will discuss political strategies to reckon with the toxic ruins of capitalist extraction and foster more diverse and autonomous forms of life and ways of living together.

             Professor Sundberg will be joined in conversation by Lorenzo Pezzani and Avi Varma, an artist, researcher and PhD Candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London.

             Juanita Sundberg is Associate Professor at the department of Geography of the University of British Columbia. Her work fosters conversations between feminist political ecology, more-than-human geographies, critical Indigenous studies, and critical theories of race and ableism in relation to climate change and extinction in settler colonial societies in the Americas.

             Currently, she is completing her book titled Cat Fights on the Río & Diabolic Caminos in the Desert: the nature of geopolitics in the United States-Mexico borderlands, which examines the environmental dimensions of United States’ boundary enforcement policies, with a specific focus on border protected areas like national wildlife refuges.

             A new collaborative project with Leticia Durand, UNAM, centers on vegetal politics with a focus on how sargassum intervenes in political ecologies on the Riviera Maya. 

[Juanita Sundberg is Associate
Professor at the department of
Geography of the University
of British Columbia.]

In this conversation, Juanita Sundberg will reflect on her longstanding work on the more-than-human dimensions of border enforcement, bringing the insights of feminist political ecology and decolonial theory to bear on questions of nature conservation, border security, and militarization. Taking inspiration from Indigenous and peasant movements across the globe, she will discuss political strategies to reckon with the toxic ruins of capitalist extraction and foster more diverse and autonomous forms of life and ways of living together.

             Professor Sundberg will be joined in conversation by Lorenzo Pezzani and Avi Varma, an artist, researcher and PhD Candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London.

             Juanita Sundberg is Associate Professor at the department of Geography of the University of British Columbia. Her work fosters conversations between feminist political ecology, more-than-human geographies, critical Indigenous studies, and critical theories of race and ableism in relation to climate change and extinction in settler colonial societies in the Americas.

             Currently, she is completing her book titled Cat Fights on the Río & Diabolic Caminos in the Desert: the nature of geopolitics in the United States-Mexico borderlands, which examines the environmental dimensions of United States’ boundary enforcement policies, with a specific focus on border protected areas like national wildlife refuges.

             A new collaborative project with Leticia Durand, UNAM, centers on vegetal politics with a focus on how sargassum intervenes in political ecologies on the Riviera Maya.