For folks thinking about Land Acknowledgements & Zoom classes: we might talk with our classes about where we& #39;re all dispersed & that Zoom relies on servers at Equinix data centers in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Melbourne, New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Silicon Valley & Sydney.
Of course we can& #39;t practically offer acknowledgements for all those places & for many it wouldn& #39;t make sense. But considering it could be instructive about internet infrastructure & how present day capital makes accountability so difficult in relation to specific territories.
Also our geographically dispersed classrooms may afford opportunities for students to consider & research the indigenous histories of where they& #39;re Zooming from. We could even open some class sessions by inviting dispersed students to share acknowledgements for their locations.
Doing this could also be a way of acknowledging that these various forms of dispossession continue to reproduce themselves today in manifold racist and classist ways along various so-called "digital divides." https://twitter.com/kdeleon/status/1299386969873461248">https://twitter.com/kdeleon/s...
And if you& #39;re unsure about how to approach Land & Territory Acknowledgements in general, I found this guide to be helpful http://landacknowledgements.org/ ">https://landacknowledgements.org/">... and of course this map that& #39;s been widely shared https://native-land.ca/ ">https://native-land.ca/">...
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