Published November 19, 2010
by iris_author
[photopress:SturgeonPR.png,thumb,pp_image][photopress:SturgeonPR.png,thumb,pp_image]November 24, 2010, 12:30pm-2pm, HNES 142
Film director James Cameron intended his 3D blockbuster, Avatar, to raise consciousness about environmental issues. Yet the plot of the movie has been criticized for relying on stereotypes of indigenous people, women and disabled people. How do we assess popular culture created for activist purposes?
Noel Sturgeon who joined FES this fall as a Fulbright Scholar will examine this question using a global, feminist, environmental justice and cultural studies approach.
Everyone welcome!! Light lunch will be served. Please bring your mug for coffee and tea. Many thanks!! RO>
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Noël Sturgeon is professor of women's studies and graduate faculty in American Studies at Washington State University. She is the author of Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory and Political Action (Routledge 1997), Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of the Natural (University of Arizona 2009) and numerous articles on environmentalist, antimilitarist, and feminist movements and theories. She has been a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers; a Visiting Scholar at Murdoch University, Australia, at the JFK Institute at the Frei Universitat in Berlin, and at the Center for Cultural Studies, UCSC; and a Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer at York University, Toronto.
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