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Here is the long-awaited & years-in-the-making paper on #ClimateColoniality! It was my plenary lecture for @Pol_Geog_Jl at the 2022 @theAAG conference.
Access the text here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1evla_Lupus%…
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Coloniality #Decolonization
Access the text here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1evla_Lupus%…
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Coloniality #Decolonization
I intertwine theories, empirics & storytelling to ground theorizations of climate coloniality in lived experiences. I demonstrated how such theorization are legitimate sites of geopolitical knowledge & counterbalances to hegemonic framings, epistemic violences & structural forces
I demonstrate the pathways through which colonialism haunts the past, present & future through climate. Climate coloniality is perpetuated through neoliberalism, racial capitalism, development interventions, education, training & the media.
Why should a language scholar from Finland care about decolonization? “All I wanna do is study languages, and Finland never had any colonies. Why should I care?” I’m glad you asked. #thread #coloniality #decolonization? #language #Finland/
Let’s start with the innocent-Finland discourse. Finland has participated in and benefited from the colonial enterprise in many ways, which other scholars have said more eloquently than me (eg Keskinen et al., 2009).../
yet the notion of Finland being “different”/“innocent” (aka Finnish exceptionalism, eg Rastas, 2012) is persistent. A starting point: raster.fi/2020/03/03/rac… /
