Brown Bag Seminar with Azucena Castro
Time: Wed 2024-10-16 12.00 - 13.00
Location: Big seminar room, Teknikringen 74D, floor 5
Language: English
Participating: Azucena Castro, Stockholm University
Na Jouktaikana/ Winds- Energy Justice and Collective Creation through Community-based Filmmaking in La Guajira, Colombia
Abstract
What is the potential of collaborative filmmaking that draws on experimental and cosmopolitical dimensions to develop alternative understandings of energy beyond the modern concept of electricity? In this talk, Azucena Castro will discuss participatory filmmaking with community members as a practice of energy justice. She will share her work with the short film Na Jouktaikana/Winds ,collaboratively produced with community members of the Indigenous group Wayuú in La Guajira, Colombia, which explores the relationship between wind energy and the winds in the Wayuú epistemology in the context of the green transition.
Here is a short film about the making of the film recorded by the broader project of Intersecting Energy Cultures.
Bio
Azucena Castro is a Swedish Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University. Previously she has been a Postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University and the Institute of Geography, University of Buenos Aires. This talk is based on a collaborative research project under the “Intersecting Energy Cultures Working Group” (Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, University of Pennsylvania).