Sublime

Exister comme peuple et pouvoir décrire ses terrains de vie, c’est une seule et même chose — et c’est justement de cela que la mondialisation-moins nous a privés. C’est faute de territoire que le peuple, comme on dit, finit par manquer.

Language can be a gift, and language can be a tool of colonialism.

The western point of view, the dominant materialist worldview, holds that land is the source of ecosystem services, land as property, as capital, as natural resources. Sustainability defined as how we can continue to use and to take. Whereas the indigenous perspective honors land a

Native American beliefs are fundamentally rooted in ideas of a multi-layered and ever changing reality. Because reality is ever changing Native Americans have no conception of normal and conversely have no concept of abnormal. It

Putting Native Americans back in the picture meant radically redefining what nature means and what the human place in it might be (another undoing of a dichotomy, the nature–culture divide, with profound implications for the environmental movement, which has not yet altogether come to terms with this revision of meaning).

what the media was calling “globalization” had almost nothing to do with the effacement of borders and the free movement of people, products, and ideas. It was really about trapping increasingly large parts of the world’s population behind highly militarized national borders within which social protections could be systematically withdrawn, creatin

Much of what free trade has brought about is what gets called “the race to the bottom,” the quest for the cheapest possible wages or agricultural production, with consequent losses on countless fronts. The argument is always that such moves make industry more profitable, but it would be more accurate to say that free trade concentrates profit away

Gabriella Gómez-Mont.