Here’s another great 2023 #ImagineOtherwise episode! Black visual studies scholar Jasmine Nichole Cobb talks about her book New Growth, haptic blackness, and the cultural politics of Black hair in US visual culture. #IoFAuthor #DukeUniversityPress https://ideasonfire.net/150-jasmine-nichole-cobb/

[ #Respecting the #relationship of #Indigenous people to their #land is not something they take lightly. As a member of the #RedRiver #Métis , Liboiron sees #pollution as a defining feature of #colonialism in general.
In fact, Liboiron’s #book “Pollution is Colonialism” ( #DukeUniversityPress 2021) spells out the concept in considerable detail.
And #plastic is perhaps the most glaring example.]

https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/news/plastics-vs-land-protectors-for-memorial-university-of-newfoundland-professor-max-liboiron-plastic-isnt-just-a-pollutant-its-the-ultimate-metaphor-for-colonization-100835620

#IndigenousPeoples #study #research #FirstNations #Canada #NativeCanada

Plastics vs. land protectors: for Memorial University of Newfoundland professor Max Liboiron, plastic isn’t just a pollutant; it’s the ultimate metaphor for colonization

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Cara New Daggett, who teaches #PoliticalScience at #VirginiaTechUniversity (Virginia, USA), has written a noted #book on the #history of #FossilFuels & their #links to the #emergence of #IndustrialLabor, #capitalism , & #colonial expansion (The Birth of Energy. Fossil Fuels, #Thermodynamics , and the Politics of Work, #DukeUniversityPress 2019, not translated).

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2023/03/13/cara-new-daggett-fossil-fuels-have-contributed-to-a-sense-of-unlimited-power_6019153_23.html

Cara New Daggett: 'Fossil fuels have contributed to a sense of unlimited power'

Fighting against global warming implies questioning our 'petrocultures' and the links between energy and gender identities, American social scientist Cara New Daggett tells 'Le Monde' in an interview.

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