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/climactic)
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.