By placing at the centre of the narrative a white woman who believes she belongs to the land, against a set of people who see her presence as oppressive and who want to brutalise her, yet who also carry out acts of violence against one another, Denis returns to the
core themes of her earlier films (such as Chocolat, 1988)-- the highly problematic
issues inherent in the processes of colonisation and decolonisation (2).
Starting with a concrete description of the practice and what it looks like in real action, each speaker would examine
core issues or imperatives
inherent in the deliberate work of enacting the practice toward justice with students and different kinds of content.