Tag: colonialism

  • The World After Gaza

    The World After Gaza

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    heather
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    I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of Pankaj Mishra in conversation with Chris Hedges discussing the “psychic ordeal” of watching a live-streamed genocide and the steady normalization of mass violence inflicted with perverse righteousness by a nation-state armed with the latest technology and a narrative of exceptional victimization. Their…

  • Carbon Footprints

    Carbon Footprints

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    heather
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    Are Americans accountable to anyone? I asked myself this question as I completed the Carbon Footprint calculator activity that was assigned to my graduate-level Sustainability course without critique or really any indication that the notion of an individual carbon footprint might be contested at all. My number came in at half of what the average…