Liberation Geographies

If freedom is a place (as Ruth Wilson Gilmore maintains), then how do we build freedom? This course pursues this question - in theory and practice - from Black and indigenous perspectives. We engage decolonial critiques of western modernity, which raise the question of how systems of oppression came to be as they are. Then we examine historic and ongoing examples of Black and indigenous liberation including practices of anticolonial place making and Mapping Decolonial Futures.