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Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity
Arctic/ Networks of Global Indigeneity offers a conversation between Indigenous Peoples of two regions in this time of political and environmental upheaval. Both regions are environmentally sensitive areas that have become hot spots in the debates circling around climate change and have long been contact zones between Indigenous Peoples and outsiders — zones of meeting and clashing, of contradictions and entanglement.
Opening with an Epistolary Exchange between the editors, Arctic/Amazon then widens to include essays by 12 Indigenous artists, curators, and knowledge-keepers about the integration of spirituality, ancestral respect, traditional knowledges, and political critique in artistic practice and more than 100 image reproductions and installation shots. The result is an extraordinary conversation about life, artistic practise, and geopolitical realities faced by Indigenous peoples in regions at risk.
Opening with an Epistolary Exchange between the editors, Arctic/Amazon then widens to include essays by 12 Indigenous artists, curators, and knowledge-keepers about the integration of spirituality, ancestral respect, traditional knowledges, and political critique in artistic practice and more than 100 image reproductions and installation shots. The result is an extraordinary conversation about life, artistic practise, and geopolitical realities faced by Indigenous peoples in regions at risk.
262 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 18, 2023
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September 1, 2025
coup de ❤️ and a much-needed dialogue!
« Despair is not something good. It neutralizes us. It stops us from moving and we don't have this option right now. How can every person everywhere change this? How can these people add to the movement for life, for beauty, for what is fair?
We must continue feeling. If you don't feel, if your spirit is not living, then you are supporting violence. Whoever feels the black body, the Indigenous body, whoever puts themselves in the shoes of a woman, in the shoes of an LGBTQ+ person, will keep them alive. This is exactly what we're here for. So please feel. Feel anger. Feel sadness. Feel happiness. But regardless of what you're feeling we need to channel it. We must guide those feelings using other forces and other spirits. »
-Emerson Uýra
« Despair is not something good. It neutralizes us. It stops us from moving and we don't have this option right now. How can every person everywhere change this? How can these people add to the movement for life, for beauty, for what is fair?
We must continue feeling. If you don't feel, if your spirit is not living, then you are supporting violence. Whoever feels the black body, the Indigenous body, whoever puts themselves in the shoes of a woman, in the shoes of an LGBTQ+ person, will keep them alive. This is exactly what we're here for. So please feel. Feel anger. Feel sadness. Feel happiness. But regardless of what you're feeling we need to channel it. We must guide those feelings using other forces and other spirits. »
-Emerson Uýra
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