#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

@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

"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

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/

"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

"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

"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

"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