Mia White, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, The New School
This lecture erects three conceptual pillars: institutions – history – space. “Institution” is understood broadly as any structure or mechanism of social order governing the behavior of individuals while also transcending individual lives and intention. In this regard, we may call “race” an institution. “History” is a dialogic, contested process of meaning-making. “Space” (which produces imaginaries like “environment” and “land”) is the knowledge and material action that institutions and history produces.
