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Un-making Environmental Activism - Beyond Modern/Colonial Binaries in the GMO Controversy (Hardcover)
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Un-making Environmental Activism - Beyond Modern/Colonial Binaries in the GMO Controversy (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics
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Much environmental activism is caught in a logic that plays science
against emotion, objective evidence against partisan aims, and
human interest against a nature that has intrinsic value. Radical
activists, by contrast, play down the role of science in
determining environmental politics, but read their solutions to
environmental problems off fixed theories of domination and
oppression. Both of these approaches are based in a modern
epistemology grounded in the fundamental dichotomy between the
human and the natural. This binary has historically come about
through the colonial oppression of other, non-Western and often
non-binary ways of knowing nature and living in the world. There is
an urgent need for a different, decolonised environmental activist
strategy that moves away from this epistemology, recognises its
colonial heritage and finds a different ground for environmental
beliefs and politics. This book analyses the arguments and
practices of anti-GMO activists at three different sites - the site
of science, the site of the Bt cotton controversy in India, and the
site of global environmental protest - to show how we can move
beyond modern/colonial binaries. It will do so in dialogue with
Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, Maria Lugones, and Gayatri C. Spivak,
as well as a broader range of postcolonial and decolonial bodies of
thought.
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