This video+essay are part of an ongoing engagement with the governance of climate change and sea level rise in Miami. They are based on a seminar that combines analytic and embodied modalities to consider how the operational logics of “climate resiliency” are connected with enduring histories of racialization and the ongoing process of inscribing settler colonial jurisdictions on native (wet)lands. The text describes some of the analytic and theoretical explorations of the seminar. The video offers a glimpse of the embodied part of the research by documenting a few group field trips charting a pathway from West to East, between the ocean and the hemmed in wetlands — from the infrastructures of informational networks, to hydraulic pumps against saltwater intrusion, sites of public “Indianness”, logistics zones, limestone mines and prisons.
Video excerpt below. For full video+text essay click here