W Lempert
Biographic Data
| ID | 52520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Lempert |
| GIVEN NAMES | W |
| FAMILY NAME | Lempert |
| SIGNATURE | LEMPERT W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowdoin College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5137-5414 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Indigenous Studies Working Group Statement
In 2018, the authors were invited to share their perspectives as Indigenous studies scholars to the work of Breakthrough Listen, an organization affiliated with both the Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC) and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). This collectively authored statement highlights some of the ethical concerns these authors perceived regarding the history colonialism and the expectations to find “advanced” or “intelli…
From Interstellar Imperialism to Celestial Wayfinding: Prime Directives and Colonial Time-Knots in Seti
This article traces parallels between James Cook’s 1768 Endeavour voyage to measure the transit of Venus and current initiatives searching for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). While separated by vast time and space, both are united in their appeal to celestial frontier science in the service of all humanity, and contain discrepancies between their ethical protocols and probable outcomes. Past, present, and future colonial projects are interw…
Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology by Miyarrka Media
Reviewed by: Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology by Miyarrka Media William Lempert Miyarrka Media, Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology. London: Goldsmiths Press, 2019. 272 pp. Collectively authored by seven members of the Northern Australianbased Miyarrka Media, Phone & Spear is one of the most creative and unique anthropological texts to be published in recent memory. Proposing a Yuta, or "new," anthropology from Yolngu perspectives, the full colo…
Side by Side: Community Art and the Challenge of Co-Creativity. By Maya Haviland
Gesturing Across Settler Divides in Marumpu Wangka! Kukatja Hand Talk
In 2014, the government of Western Australia proposed a plan to defund, and in effect close, about half of the nearly three hundred remote Aboriginal communities in the state. During this time, the author collaborated on a hand sign video project with five women Elders at the Kapululangu Women’s Law and Culture Centre in Balgo, an Aboriginal community in the Great Sandy Desert. The author articulates why Marumpu Wangka! Kukatja Hand Talk —an unas…
Etched in Bone: Martin Thomas & Béatrice Bijon (directors, producers) Canberra, Australia, Red Lily Productions (production company) Duration 72 mins DVD, 2018
An eight-year endeavour by Martin Thomas and Beatrice Bijon, Etched in Bone is a thoughtful and intimate exploration of the repatriation of human remains from the Smithsonian back to the Aboriginal
Generative Hope in the Postapocalyptic Present
The Native Apocalypse, if contemplated seriously, has already taken place.-Grace Dillon I grew up hard, me.I've been through hell.I've faced the worst, tough people in my time, but I stood my ground.-Dunba Nunju (Walmajarri)We live in an era increasingly defined by apocalyptic rhetoric, from the seeming inevitability of climate change to conflict in the Middle East, from the specter of deregulation-induced global financial collapse to populism fu…
Indigenous Media Futures: An Introduction
This collection of essays engages the ways in which anthropological understandings of Indigenous media can be expanded and reimagined through a focus on futurity.Throughout, the contributors pose two distinct yet interconnected questions: What does the future of Indigenous media hold?And, how is the future itself being increasingly asserted through Indigenous media production?In a sense, then, the collection serves as both retrospective and openi…
Decolonizing Encounters of the Third Kind: Alternative Futuring in Native Science Fiction Film
In the last few years, N ative filmmakers have begun drawing explicitly on the science fiction genre. Engaging recent short films depicting noncolonial encounters of the third kind and alternative utopian–dystopian futures, I argue that N ative science fiction film provides a creative subversive mode of representation, uniquely positioning indigenous filmmakers to vividly reimagine a multiplicity of futures for their communities while critically …
Generative Hope in the Postapocalyptic Present
The Native Apocalypse, if contemplated seriously, has already taken place.-Grace Dillon I grew up hard, me.I've been through hell.I've faced the worst, tough people in my time, but I stood my ground.-Dunba Nunju (Walmajarri)We live in an era increasingly defined by apocalyptic rhetoric, from the seeming inevitability of climate change to conflict in the Middle East, from the specter of deregulation-induced global financial collapse to populism fu…
Decolonizing Encounters of the Third Kind: Alternative Futuring in Native Science Fiction Film
In the last few years, N ative filmmakers have begun drawing explicitly on the science fiction genre. Engaging recent short films depicting noncolonial encounters of the third kind and alternative utopian–dystopian futures, I argue that N ative science fiction film provides a creative subversive mode of representation, uniquely positioning indigenous filmmakers to vividly reimagine a multiplicity of futures for their communities while critically …
Indigenous Media Futures: An Introduction
This collection of essays engages the ways in which anthropological understandings of Indigenous media can be expanded and reimagined through a focus on futurity.Throughout, the contributors pose two distinct yet interconnected questions: What does the future of Indigenous media hold?And, how is the future itself being increasingly asserted through Indigenous media production?In a sense, then, the collection serves as both retrospective and openi…
Decolonizing Encounters of the Third Kind: Alternative Futuring in Native Science Fiction Film
In the last few years, N ative filmmakers have begun drawing explicitly on the science fiction genre. Engaging recent short films depicting noncolonial encounters of the third kind and alternative utopian–dystopian futures, I argue that N ative science fiction film provides a creative subversive mode of representation, uniquely positioning indigenous filmmakers to vividly reimagine a multiplicity of futures for their communities while critically …
Generative Hope in the Postapocalyptic Present
The Native Apocalypse, if contemplated seriously, has already taken place.-Grace Dillon I grew up hard, me.I've been through hell.I've faced the worst, tough people in my time, but I stood my ground.-Dunba Nunju (Walmajarri)We live in an era increasingly defined by apocalyptic rhetoric, from the seeming inevitability of climate change to conflict in the Middle East, from the specter of deregulation-induced global financial collapse to populism fu…
Indigenous Media Futures: An Introduction
This collection of essays engages the ways in which anthropological understandings of Indigenous media can be expanded and reimagined through a focus on futurity.Throughout, the contributors pose two distinct yet interconnected questions: What does the future of Indigenous media hold?And, how is the future itself being increasingly asserted through Indigenous media production?In a sense, then, the collection serves as both retrospective and openi…
Gesturing Across Settler Divides in Marumpu Wangka! Kukatja Hand Talk
In 2014, the government of Western Australia proposed a plan to defund, and in effect close, about half of the nearly three hundred remote Aboriginal communities in the state. During this time, the author collaborated on a hand sign video project with five women Elders at the Kapululangu Women’s Law and Culture Centre in Balgo, an Aboriginal community in the Great Sandy Desert. The author articulates why Marumpu Wangka! Kukatja Hand Talk —an unas…
Etched in Bone: Martin Thomas & Béatrice Bijon (directors, producers) Canberra, Australia, Red Lily Productions (production company) Duration 72 mins DVD, 2018
An eight-year endeavour by Martin Thomas and Beatrice Bijon, Etched in Bone is a thoughtful and intimate exploration of the repatriation of human remains from the Smithsonian back to the Aboriginal
Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology by Miyarrka Media
Reviewed by: Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology by Miyarrka Media William Lempert Miyarrka Media, Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology. London: Goldsmiths Press, 2019. 272 pp. Collectively authored by seven members of the Northern Australianbased Miyarrka Media, Phone & Spear is one of the most creative and unique anthropological texts to be published in recent memory. Proposing a Yuta, or "new," anthropology from Yolngu perspectives, the full colo…
Side by Side: Community Art and the Challenge of Co-Creativity. By Maya Haviland
Indigenous Studies Working Group Statement
In 2018, the authors were invited to share their perspectives as Indigenous studies scholars to the work of Breakthrough Listen, an organization affiliated with both the Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC) and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). This collectively authored statement highlights some of the ethical concerns these authors perceived regarding the history colonialism and the expectations to find “advanced” or “intelli…
From Interstellar Imperialism to Celestial Wayfinding: Prime Directives and Colonial Time-Knots in Seti
This article traces parallels between James Cook’s 1768 Endeavour voyage to measure the transit of Venus and current initiatives searching for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). While separated by vast time and space, both are united in their appeal to celestial frontier science in the service of all humanity, and contain discrepancies between their ethical protocols and probable outcomes. Past, present, and future colonial projects are interw…
Sociology (7 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works)