Indigenous Futurisms: Sentient Territories and Decolonial Futures

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This class will explore how indigenous creators and intellectuals from Latin America intervene in the narratives of the past, reformulate the present, and imagine the future utilizing ancestral knowledge, environmental ethics, and decolonial thinking. We will discuss issues related to indigenous sovereignty and self-determination through the work of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, José Carlos Mariátegui, Micaela Bastidas, Arguedas, the Qhipa Pacha Collective, Daniel Munduruku, E.G. Condé, Federico Cuatlacuatl, among others. We will also examine how the future becomes a territory where technology, the revitalization of languages, and nature coexist. This class aims to reflect on themes of time, memory, coloniality, and environmental advocacy.