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Decolonising Every Day: A Calendar Zine by Carmen Daneshmandi

How did the idea of the calendar come about? It comes from a few different places, each with their own weight of influence. I love to see photography and writing come together, music and photography come together. I love print, I love zines. At the start of my photography in high school I was also always obsessively writing poetry. A teacher of mine had pulled me aside and put me on to the poetry…

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Salt to Stars: The Environmental and Community Impacts of Lithium Mining.

A comic by the Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice with art by Sophie Wang, text under the cut. This is part of a toolkit to challenge greenwashing in the climate movement. Please share to support Indigenous water protectors and non-extractive decolonial solutions to climate change!

In the highlands of the Andes, Indigenous peoples have used lagoons of ancient brine to interpret the night sky since time immemorial. These lagoons are sacred cultural sites and home to their ancestors, some of the earliest forms of microbial life.

This region is one of the driest deserts in the world. (The Salar de Atacama receives ~80 mm/3 inches of rain per year. Sahara desert 100 mm.)

Even so, ecosystems--including people--have adapted to the hyperarid, hypersaline environment. Organisms include stromatolites, extremophile bacteria, flamingos, llamas and vincuña, brine shrimp, and halophyte grasses. People living in the salar regions are agro-pastoral farmers, meaning they integrate crop and livestock cultivation. They have always managed the existing water systems to grow food crops and to sustain their animals and families.

The extremely salty water is called brine. The brines formed millions of years ago when the climate was wetter, as rain and snow carrying dissolved minerals collected in closed basins. Strong sunshine and dry conditions have concentrated this water over thousands of years. Brine rich in lithium and other minerals is part of a complex interconnected groundwater system, that supports Indigenous peoples and their traditional ways of life.

Mining companies, see this sacred landscape only as profitable resources. Lithium mining is expanding here to make electric vehicle batteries and other so-called “renewable” energy storage infrastructure.

In fact, investors and prospectors call lithium “white gold.” But to Indigenous peoples around the world, gold rushes have meant genocide and ecocide.

To mine lithium, brine is pumped into shallow pools where the water is evaporated and the minerals are collected. Lithium mining is groundwater mining, and the groundwater in the Atacama desert is nonrenewable. Lithium brine used to make “renewable” energy storage is a nonrenewable resource. 1 olympic size swimming pool of water = 23 Tesla vehicles. Tesla’s production goals = 20 million vehicles per year by 2030 (that’s 869,500 olympic size swimming pools per year).

Indigenous communities are resisting the destruction of their sacred waters and traditional homelands. Many say “No” to lithium mining. Communities the Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc, Argentina, blockaded the highway in February, 2019 to protest violation of consultation rights.

Many fear the destruction of ecological, cultural, and spiritual life cycles and further displacement of indigenous communities, forcing people off their homelands and into the cities where they become the racialized urban poor. Farmers are already noticing a sharp decline in their crops.

Electric vehicles and lithium batteries are not sustainable nor climate change solutions.. They only shift exploitation and extraction to differerent non-renewable resources and people.

True solutions to climate change require radical re-imagining of our extractivist practices. Like our Andean Indigenous compas, we must see ourselves as part of the same interconnected world, human and ecology, from salt to stars.

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"To do queer, decolonial work is to question the received gender binary and to unseat heteronormativity from its imposed centrality in Indigenous lives."

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Decolonising Education: Implications for global education policy

© Leon Tikly In this article we consider the implications of decolonising knowledge in the field of education. It is important to note that education is both a field of inquiry and a field of pract…

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Postcolonial, Decolonial, Anti-Colonial: Does it Matter? – New Voices in Postcolonial Studies

Postcolonial, Decolonial, Anti-Colonial: Does it Matter?

DOWNLOAD THE MAGAZINE READ THE MAGAZINE By Lydia Ayame Hiraide Our use of language is under constant change, and this is perhaps nowhere tru

Yes of course it matters. Ask a better question please.

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Caroline Lenette – The Importance of Being Disruptive: On Decolonising Creative Research Methods. - YouTube

Thanks as ever to Helen Kara for creating this resource. Please like and subscribe to her YouTube channel - you know the routine.

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Interview: Professor Srila Roy - The Sociological Review

Interview: Professor Srila Roy Our 2023 Annual Lecture speaker on feminism, decolonising higher education, Johannesburg and academic failure

Interview with Professor Srila Roy, transnational feminist sociologist and award-winning author, on scholarship, decolonisation and The Soci

Fantasy brain pairing.

Today I am wondering how overexciting it would be to even contemplate the prospect of a Tressie McMillan Cottom and Srila Roy