"Decolonization is not a metaphor"
An exploration of the distinction between settler colonialism and decolonization, arguing that decolonization is not a metaphor and should not be reduced to social justice initiatives.
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The tropes of "training" and "political maturation," basic components of the European mission civilisatrice, had been deployed by Britain, the United States, and
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Decolonizing is training our gaze on the origins of suffering in order to uproot them. It is the ambition to build a community of respect for the “animacy of life itself.”70
Raj Patel • Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
important to them and as a historical concept, but it needs to be salvaged from the Abrahamic framework.
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Colonialism has fundamentally altered our relationships with the web of life, and we are all living with its consequences. When Europe began its pillage of the Western Hemisphere in 1492, Indigenous cosmologies of reciprocity, relationships with and duties of care for water, land, and living beings were uprooted, replaced with a worldview animated
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