copharynx (was qoph@octodon)Oct 11

#AmReading (re-reading, technically) Pollution Is Colonialism by Max Liboiron (Métis/Michif), which quotes Sandy Grande (Quechua): "Both Marxists and capitalists view land and natural resources as commodities to be exploited . . . capitalists for personal gain, and . . . Marxists for the good of all."

"Good of all" is of course theoretical, because people with patriarchal, colonizer, and other dominator worldviews arrogate to themselves the right to define what's "good" for perceived subordinates. So it's fitting that Liboiron's last chapter says, "If colonialism is a mode of domination where settlers and colonial forces have access to Land for their goals . . . then community peer review is a way to cockblock that entitlement."

(Liboiron has put a footnote on "cockblock." Don't miss this book's footnotes, which are cheeky & fun & discombobulate the entire stuffy colonizer enterprise of academic so-called objectivity and omniscience.)
#MaxLiboiron #PollutionIsColonialism

Show threadgomliNov 5, 2024

@terrestres @danahilliot

#livre #MaxLiboiron, "Polluer, c’est coloniser", paru aux éditions Amsterdam en 2024
"Si le vol des Terres et la dépossession des peuples sont des événements circonscrits dans le temps, en revanche la perpétuation du vol des Terres sur la durée nécessite un entretien et des infrastructures qui ne se résument pas à des occurrences isolées : « la colonisation est un processus continu et non seulement un événement historique »"

C'est intéressant, ça rejoint nos discussions sur les infrastructures et leur impacte qui va au delà du matériel.

#DeborahCowen
https://climatejustice.social/@danahilliot/113391868937243432
https://climatejustice.social/@danahilliot/112773996796372743
https://piaille.fr/@gomli/113391827312673445

dana hiliot (@[email protected])

@[email protected] ah merci beaucoup !! Alors concernant les infrastructures antiques... et leur impact écologique, c'est un vieux débat.. qui ne m'intéresse pas beaucoup en réalité (bien souvent, les gens qui font remonter les impacts écologiques de l'humanité à Mathusalem sont aussi ceux qui finissent par relativiser (parfois inconsciemment) les dégâts du capitalisme global contemporain.. C'est sans commune mesure en vérité.. Par contre, ce qui me fascine c'est cette géographie "alternative" si bien décrite par Deborah Cowen et d'autres, que dessinent les réseaux d'infrastructures autour des flux de marchandises (depuis l'extraction des matières premières jusqu'aux points de livraison "just in time" à côté de chez soi, en passant par les zones portuaires, les usines du monde, les couloirs de déplacement des cargos chargés de containers etc etc..). Et la militarisation désormais systématique de ces enclaves géographiques (car il faut protéger les flux). Ces territoires hors-lois, ces régimes d'exception, où la répression et l'exploitation sont féroces, et les dégâts environnementaux considérables. (sans parler de ces autres infrastructures qualifiées à tort d'immatérielles - communication / internet / Finances / voire, tout là haut dans le ciel, les réseaux de satellite - sacrée infrastructures là aussi, à la fois visible et invisible..) https://debcowen.ca/

Climate Justice Social
Marie VC, PhDApr 23, 2024

"Readers, did you know there is this wonderful type of event where people who are invested in you and your work come together, on couches and over food, for a couple of days to give feedback on your book? I didn’t, until Joe Masco told me about it. I think it has a real name, but I’ve called it a book doula party. It means peer review is based in love and generosity— one of the greatest academic gifts I have ever received." (@maxliboiron, Pollution is Colonialism, 2021)

#MaxLiboiron #Academia

Show threadWinstonJan 14, 2024

side note: while reading a interview with #maxliboiron a while ago on terminologies such as decolonization-- they mention "I think this is why Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang's text, "Decolonization is not a Metaphor," is one of the touchstone articles for so many of us. They talk about when all the bad stuff--imperialism, racism, exclusion, sexism, being a jerk--is conflated with colonialism, then all the good stuff--inclusion, anti-racism, taking off your shoes at the front door--is conflated with decolonization. Which means "decolonial" actions rarely involve giving land back or addressing genocide" which explains in part why they name their own practice #anticolonial

Since then I’m rethinking of how to communicate/share projects attempting to produce good relationships in the context of #colonialheritage #archives in which the term decolonization is used.

https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2021/05/14/qa-with-max-liboiron-author-of-pollution-is-colonialism/

Q&A with Max Liboiron, Author of Pollution Is Colonialism

Max Liboiron is Associate Professor of Geography at Memorial University. Their new book is Pollution Is Colonialism, which models an anticolonial scientific practice aligned with Indigenous concept…

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Show threadMarie VC, PhDJun 8, 2023

"We also practise citational justice, a process that ensures gender parity and increased citations of authors of colour and of non-academics. We find ways to cite oral histories, plus community members and knowledge holders who don’t publish journal articles, by looking for citation formats that allow us to do so."
(@maxliboiron)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01878-1

#MaxLiboiron #CitationalJustice

@academicchatter

What it means to practise values-based research

Environmental scientist Max Liboiron ties principles of humility and accountability to research that respects people and their relationship with the land.

Show threadMarie VC, PhDJun 8, 2023

"We hire local people, even if they do not have previous science experience, and train them. Our lab is full of Black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) researchers, transgender persons, women and local people, all of whom have valuable knowledge that is often pushed out of science."
(@maxliboiron)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01878-1

#MaxLiboiron #AntiColonization

What it means to practise values-based research

Environmental scientist Max Liboiron ties principles of humility and accountability to research that respects people and their relationship with the land.

Show threadMarie VC, PhDJun 8, 2023

"I’ll instead say anti-colonization, which means, we are not assuming entitlement to Indigenous land and life for resource use or research access. For example, asking permission before working on Indigenous land is minding your manners in a way that doesn’t reproduce colonization. The use of the term anti-colonization is just being more specific about what we’re doing."
(@maxliboiron )

#MaxLiboiron #AntiColonization

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01878-1

What it means to practise values-based research

Environmental scientist Max Liboiron ties principles of humility and accountability to research that respects people and their relationship with the land.

Marie VC, PhDJun 8, 2023

"Everything we do — who we hire, who we collaborate with and how we take out the trash — we do with three values in mind. First, humility, or recognizing that you are part of other relations. Second, accountability, or being beholden to those relationships. And finally, collectivity, the idea that no individual is more important than the collective."
(@maxliboiron)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01878-1

#MaxLiboiron

What it means to practise values-based research

Environmental scientist Max Liboiron ties principles of humility and accountability to research that respects people and their relationship with the land.