The University of Oregon Anthropology Department to co-sponsor Stephen Corry as keynote speaker at Public Interest Environmental Law Conference Stephen Corry will speak at Running Into Running Out: Public Interest Environmental Law Conference 2014, held at the University of Oregon. Anthropologist, Stephen Corry was projects director of Survival International from 1972 and has been the director general since 1984. Corry was chairman of the Free Tibet Campaign from 1993 until 2009 and remains on its board. In the 1970s, he promoted self-determination in the debate about indigenous peoples, a revolutionary concept when the debate centered on the poles of assimilation or preservation. In the 1980s he pushed to popularize tribal peoples’ issues, and in the 1990s he led the opposition to ideas such as the rainforest harvest, which threatened to confuse economic issues with human rights. Corry’s work now is centered on building a groundswell of support for tribal peoples, significant enough to permanently change the false and harmful assertion that they are backward remnants destined to disappear. He has recently also challenged the resurgence of colonialist ideology about ‘brutal savages’, which claims that science proves tribal peoples are more violent than industrialized societies. Corry’s published work includes a guide entitled Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow’s World (2011). Check it out by following the link below.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:19:50 +0000
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