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FIELDNOTE_0419_NALUWAN_MOLLY

Today's visit started with all of us students going down to the canal that runs parallel to Naluwan to collect shells.

Fieldnote _0415_Naluwan_MOLLY

I arrived earlier than the other students and had some time to interact with Ivan and his family before the others arrived.

Fieldnote _0412_Naluwan_MOLLY

Also this week we spent time with the elderly in the community. Me and Charles had a conversation with a man in a wheelchair that Charles also talked to last time.

22 feb- Naluwan Art

Art at Naluwan created by the former chief of the tribe.

(The gouverment refused to accept this as art.)

Art from Naluwan

Scale and "Community"

kgupta

Thinking through this article and Vermeylen's, something we might consider in ATX is how we conceptualize community itself. It is so easy in EJ-contexts to make communities our object of study and analysis, which can erase identities and exclusions within them...

How is ecological harm and gentrification experienced by LGBTQ people in Austin? Women? Etcetera? 

Energy and Race

kgupta

What is the energy sector's relationship to racial capitalism? How is its current configuration shaped by legacies of settler colonialism, state bureaucracy, and corporate investment?