Colonialism has markedly influenced forestry in California, but Indigenous-led organizing for the recognition and inclusion of prescribed burning in forest management leaves hope that California’s forests can once again fully benefit from Indigenous management practices.
The shifting ethos in Chinese art history, from serving political propaganda to expressing individual narratives, demonstrates how ethical considerations are inextricably linked to artistic expression.
In the face of what increasingly feels like an impossible situation, we must steadfastly honor the profound history that underpins the plea for Palestinian decolonization, and the enduring legacy of sumud.
In this paper, I will use modern-day settler-colonial nations of Liberia and occupied Palestine (Israel) to expose the underpinnings and strategies of environmental destruction that further the accumulation of empire.
The main problems with the increase in thrifting today stem from corporate greed and gentrifiers reselling stock, or just ignoring neighborhood customs and not supporting local businesses.
Where traditional approaches to environmentalism and the facts they provide can overwhelm the audiences they are meant to incite, dance can provide an alternative route in communicating the urgency of climate injustice.
I am writing this article anonymously, at a dangerous moment in academia where students and faculty are censored, doxxed, blacklisted, and threatened for taking a public stance on Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.
Visual language allows us to literally express – not just describe – a key aspect to cyborg imagery, which is the destruction of the self and the blur of the abstract with the real.