Human-Environment Relations at UDelaware
“Credit in agrarian India: narrative policy struggles over farmer surplus”
Islam, Faisal Bin, Lindsay Naylor, James Edward Bryan, and Dennis J. Coker. “Climate Coloniality and Settler Colonialism: Adaptation and Indigenous Futurities.” Political Geography 114 (October 1, 2024): 103164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103164.
As Faisal notes, ‘Here, we critically challenge the Western-centric climate adaptation research and narratives (including IPCC) that fail to conceptualize Indigenous futurities and therefore reproduce climate coloniality in settler colonial territories both locally and globally.’
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“The Chiapas struggle of warfare spanning the past 500 years can be traced back to colonization, conquest, and the systematic erasure, invisibilization, and genocide of Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.“
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chatted with Dr. Julie Klinger.
Have a listen as Dr. Klinger talks about “rare earths — a family of 17 elements that are essential to the function of modern industry and are indispensable in everyday technology. Julie debunks many of the myths surrounding China and rare earths, and lays out her ideas about why, despite the relative ubiquity of mineable rare earth deposits, China has dominated production of these vitally important minerals for decades. ”
Nate Thayer presented his work on diverse economic practices in Appalachia at the Middle States Division of the American Association of Geographers meeting this past weekend.
“Honey in the Hollow: Diverse Economies and the Building of Ecological Livelihoods in West Virginia”