Events

While the science of fortress conservation has been debunked, the ideology it was founded on persists in a vast array of responses to the climate crisis that benefit the few at the expense of the many. This panel asks what it means to unfence the future in our age of climate catastrophe.

The second day of “Unfence the Future” opens with a poetry reading by Cheyenne and Hudulgee Muscogee poet and Native American rights advocate Suzan Shown Harjo.

This free, 2-day virtual conference brings together community leaders, activists, scientists, scholars, and artists who are working to dismantle the enduring legacies of fortress conservation in institutions of U.S. federal law, historic preservation, and conservation.

What if we understood fortress conservation not as the invention of patriotic nationalists in the American west, but as the renovation of a centuries-long process of primitive accumulation, where capitalist relations to land were violently imposed upon the world we share in common?