Mabel Annals
A small border-land state in the Eastern Himalayas of India, the focus of Annal’s work.
What is Sikkim?
The traditional name of the Navajo people.
What is Diné?
Looking at environmental issues (climate change, food scarcity) from a political lens and trying to tackle scientific problems with social/systemic reform.
What is environmental justice?
The coolest and most awesome class offered at UNC.
What is GEOG 240 Introduction to Environmental Justice?
Explanations for the earthquakes in Sikkim, as described by the Lepcha people.
What are sin and pollution?
Permanent landmarks that define Curley’s homeland.
What are the four sacred peaks?
Idea that race developed in relationship to capitalism.
What is racial capitalism?
The first public university in the United States, established in 1789
What is UNC-Chapel Hill?
Traditions and ways of life that have been erased or subsumed within the “great traditions” of Hinduism and Buddhism.
What are “little cultures?”
A term used as a guise for colonialism and the extraction/exploitation of nature.
What are resources?
Settler capacity to see land, life, people, and nature as commodities.
What is settler enslaver logic?
Considered the birthplace of environmental justice.
What is Warren County?
Two religious practices, discussed in the article as having conflicting moral implications and ritualistic practices that caused conflict and concern, particularly from Loden.
What are Tibetan Buddhism and Lepcha Shamanism?
Act that created policy and opportunity to develop alternative energy resources, focusing on the role of local communities in building these industries.
What is the 2009 Navajo Green Jobs Act?
Used as a physical and metaphorical term to acknowledge “Black livingness,” meaning that even in an environment of oppression, there is still an element of Black life that must be recognized (hint: has to do with land).
What is Plantation/Plot?
A region in the Himalayas where Professor Smith’s husband is from.
What is Ladakh?
A Lepcha Shaman considered the “gatekeeper and mediator between the human and spirit world” who performed ritual offerings to prevent earthquakes.
Who is a Bungthing?
The Diné notion which speaks to the inherent relatedness Diné people have with each other and Diné lands.
What is K’é?
Not acknowledging “whiteness” because it may feel awkward/uncomfortable.
What is “Settler Moves to Innocence?”
Professor Smith’s office hours.
What is Monday 12:30-2 and Tuesday 1-2?