Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being

Bio: Elspeth Iralu (Angami Naga) is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Planning at the University of New Mexico, where her research and teaching focus on Indigenous methodologies, Indigenous space, place, and mapping, and violence and visual culture. Her scholarly writing has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography, Political Geography, and American Quarterly.
Abstract: In this talk, I examine Naga modes of storytelling as anticolonial epistemologies that enact Naga sovereignty in the here and now. Reflecting on the capacity of storytelling to facilitate movement between past, present, and future, I highlight moments of visual and aural attention that shape the Indigenous present.