"Settler systems of epistemic and conceptual resources and the relations among them are constructed to preclude certain forms of knowledge. This is not an accident; it is a central goal of colonial violence.
Colonization and land dispossession would not be possible without the violent disruption of Indigenous knowledge systems and ongoing organized attempts to disrupt their survival. Embodied ways of knowing, spiritual ways of knowing, land-based ways of knowing – these are all forms of knowledge that are violently foreclosed in the name of settler futurity. Dispossessive practices create and are reinforced by settler knowledge systems that generate epistemic oppression as a matter of course. To separate a people from the land that bore them, that raised them, that cares for them is not only an act of violence – it is an act of violence that cannot be achieved without the tools of epistemic warfare.
Colonizers have fought and continue to fight the war of colonization with a multitude of brutal offensives. While the processes and practices of settler colonialism are as diverse as the lands they have occupied and conquered, a commonality that arises among these variegated techniques of violence is that colonization is, in large part, an epistemic project."
https://philpapers.org/archive/BEREOR.pdf
Colonization and land dispossession would not be possible without the violent disruption of Indigenous knowledge systems and ongoing organized attempts to disrupt their survival. Embodied ways of knowing, spiritual ways of knowing, land-based ways of knowing – these are all forms of knowledge that are violently foreclosed in the name of settler futurity. Dispossessive practices create and are reinforced by settler knowledge systems that generate epistemic oppression as a matter of course. To separate a people from the land that bore them, that raised them, that cares for them is not only an act of violence – it is an act of violence that cannot be achieved without the tools of epistemic warfare.
Colonizers have fought and continue to fight the war of colonization with a multitude of brutal offensives. While the processes and practices of settler colonialism are as diverse as the lands they have occupied and conquered, a commonality that arises among these variegated techniques of violence is that colonization is, in large part, an epistemic project."
https://philpapers.org/archive/BEREOR.pdf
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New Nature Reserves Established by Citizens Prove WE Can Save The Planet!
Several initiatives worldwide to restore and preserve nature prove that we don’t have to rely on the government to protect the land. Instead, we, the people, can come together, buy out acres, and turn them into a nature reserve ourselves! A Scottish community recently did it, and another in the UK. Imagine how much of the planet could be saved if more groups follow suit and use community ownership as a catalyst for regeneration with the environment at heart.
https://www.intelligentliving.co/new-nature-reserves-by-citizens-we-can-save-the-planet/
Several initiatives worldwide to restore and preserve nature prove that we don’t have to rely on the government to protect the land. Instead, we, the people, can come together, buy out acres, and turn them into a nature reserve ourselves! A Scottish community recently did it, and another in the UK. Imagine how much of the planet could be saved if more groups follow suit and use community ownership as a catalyst for regeneration with the environment at heart.
https://www.intelligentliving.co/new-nature-reserves-by-citizens-we-can-save-the-planet/
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Waiting for the first rays here
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