Indigenous Ecofeminisms as (Re)Mapping Projects: An Interview with FIlmmaker Nanobah Becker
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
11-2025
Department 1
Environmental Studies
Abstract
This chapter introduces the concept of Indigenous ecofeminisms, a term that characterizes the intersections between race, gender,and environment as expressed by contemporary Indigenous women filmmakers,like Nanobah Becker (Navajo/Diné). In fleshing out this concept, the chapter traces three thematic strands central to Becker's work: how she reclaims colonized spaces (e.g. Monument Valley and Los Angeles) as Indigenous home, how she works both off- and on-screen to foreground collaboration and fluid gender identity as an essential element of her filmmaking, and how she understands the way virtual screens are networked with material sensations in our bodies. In all, the chapter argues that filmmakers like Becker offer a sense of cinematic place as socioculturally and materially entangled in Indigenous epistemologies and cosmologies that help (re)map and collapse typical binaries erected between environment, race and gender issues.
ISBN/ISSN
978-1517919061
Recommended Citation
Monani, Salma. (2025). "Indigenous Ecofeminisms as (Re)Mapping Projects: An Interview with FIlmmaker Nanobah Becker." In Joanna Hearne and Karrmen Crey (Eds.), By Their Work: Indigenous Women’s Digital Media in North America (pp. 169-184). University of Minnesota Press.