Chelsea Fairbank
B.A. ~ Columbia University in the City of New York
– Cultural Anthropology
Concentration: Human Rights
M.A. ~ Western New Mexico University
– Masters in Education
Research interests:
- Geologic discourse
- Ontological suppositions
- Personhood {autonomies} of the larger living community
- Semiotic zones of gendered violence
- Striated spaces of state violence (environmental/social/atmospheric)
- Subjunctive potentials
- Land extraction(s)
- Spatiality (appropriations, manifestations)
- Communication – rhetoric, the making of subjectivities
- Late liberalism’s cooperation(s) and coercions
My work resonates from an urgency to address rapid environmental change as a lived and present experience. I am interested in thoughts which challenge assumptions around knowledge, justice, and environmental stewardship. Focusing on large-scale fossil fuel extraction sites, and the peoples impacted in these zones, my research seeks to deconstruct political and economic on-goings of coloniality and dispossessions.