Avatar, Tar Sands, and Dad. Issue 2 (May 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Avatar, Tar Sands, and Dad. Issue 2 (May 2018)
- Main Title:
- Avatar, Tar Sands, and Dad
- Authors:
- Sutton, Timothy
- Abstract:
- This is an (auto)ethnographic performance inspired by a conversation with my father while leaving the theater after watching Avatar back in 2009. It is intended to be performed as readers' theater. In it, I examine the role anthropology plays in the performance of imperialist nostalgia across the stories of James Cameron's film Avatar, Ursula K. Le Guin's novella The Word for World Is Forest, and Theodora Kroeber's Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America . I see a performance of alternative possibilities in Le Guin's utopian speculative fiction and in recent Indigenous-led activism opposing megaresource extraction projects such as Alberta's tar sands and the pipelines that snake out from it.
- Is Part Of:
- International review of qualitative research. Volume 11:Issue 2(2018)
- Journal:
- International review of qualitative research
- Issue:
- Volume 11:Issue 2(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 11, Issue 2 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0011-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 178
- Page End:
- 197
- Publication Date:
- 2018-05
- Subjects:
- Alberta tar sands -- Ishi -- Alfred Kroeber -- Avatar -- Ursula K. Le Guin
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http://www.sagepublications.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1525/irqr.2018.11.2.178 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1940-8447
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