Book ID: CBB842601776

Earth Diplomacy: Indigenous American Art, Ecological Crisis, and the Cold War (2024)

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Horton, Jessica L. (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2024
Physical Details: 400
Language: English

In Earth Diplomacy, Jessica L. Horton reveals how Native American art in the mid-twentieth century mobilized Indigenous cultures of diplomacy to place the earth itself at the center of international relations. She focuses on a group of artists, including Pablita Velarde, Darryl Blackman, and Oscar Howe, who participated in exhibitions and lectures abroad as part of the United States’s Cold War cultural propaganda. Horton emphasizes how their art modeled a radical alternative to dominant forms of statecraft, a practice she calls “earth diplomacy”: a response to extractive colonial capitalism grounded in Native ideas of deep reciprocal relationships between humans and other beings that govern the world. Horton draws on extensive archival research and oral histories as well as analyses of Indigenous creative work, including paintings, textiles, tipis, adornment, and artistic demonstrations. By interweaving diplomacy, ecology, and art history, Horton advances Indigenous frameworks of reciprocity with all beings in the cosmos as a path to transforming our broken system of global politics.

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Authors & Contributors
Aso, Michitake
Balmer, Brian
Barth, Kai-Henrik
Brady, Lisa M.
Bryant, William Harold
Cheyfitz, Eric
Journals
Diplomatic History
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Arizona Quarterly
Cultural Anthropology
Environment and History
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Publishers
University of Iowa
Cornell University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
University of Akron Press
University of Calgary Press
University of Washington Press
Concepts
Cold War
Foreign relations; diplomacy
Environmental degradation
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Ecology
Technology and politics
People
Tôn-Thất, Tùng
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
Medieval
Early modern
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Vietnam
Vienna (Austria)
India
Korea
Institutions
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
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