Decolonizing Our Relationship w/ Nature

Tonight we’re joined by Jennifer who had this to say…

“I want people to leave the talk thinking their personal resistance matters and that what we’re doing here in the Dirty Hoe Coven/online makes a difference.”

We’ll discuss some of the concepts we have all already thought about- decolonizing our minds and our lives- with some citations.

First, we’ll talk about how western concepts of nature as either Sublime or Frontier (Cronon 1995) keep humans out of nature. Including people as part of nature, belonging in nature, and partnered with nature is a decolonial view that puts us in line with other ways of knowing, other ontologies. We will talk about Traditional Ecological Knowledge (Whyte 2013) and kinship ecology. We will wrap up by talking about degrowth as a series of “de- and re- linkings” (Neville & Coulthard, 2019).