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by Frances Rosenberg. (Image retrieved from Global Justice Org) Climate change is colonial violence. This is not a new opinion. Activists, researchers, and Indigenous peoples around the world have been declaring for decades the ways in which climate change is both caused by and perpetuates colonialism. Yet the public discourse surrounding climate change in Western countries often lacks this decolonial perspective. Instead, it focuses on either doom-and-gloom “humans are the

By Antonio Diaz Caycedo How is Global Development understood today? In my first university class on Global Development, our professor told us that good intentions alone are insufficient. In fact, the field is ridden with examples of good intentions gone wrong. This article deals with such a case. In this article, I want to tell you how an ambitious plan to end poverty became perverted into a scheme to extract money from the very people it was intended to help. This is the sto

Between Copenhagen and Washington: The Kalaallit Still Wait By Elias Stumpf The climate is getting milder, curiosity is growing. For now, the North Pole remains closer than the nearest McDonald's. Yet in Greenland, beneath the melting ice lies a struggle that reveals how colonial power structures persist, transform, and re-emerge even as they claim to dissolve. Throughout this article, Greenland will be referred to by its Indigenous name, Kalaallit Nunaat (Land of the Kalaall

I’ve been feeling extremely overwhelmed by the current geopolitical crises. I find myself trying to figure out how to perfectly recycle the multi-material packaging of my vegetarian onigiri, while trying to keep up with the Aljazeera liveblog on the USA-Iran War, while an oil refinery catches fire in Mexico and more gruesome details bubble up from the Epstein Files, only to be suppressed by an item on Jake Paul being endorsed by Donald Trump? (yes, this really happened if yo

By Frances Rosenberg January 28th and 29th I attended the International Festival of Decoloniality , hosted online by the University of Derby. Through presentations and workshops, dozens of us—thinkers and doers from around the globe—explored possibilities of decolonization, in the realm of education primarily (although not exclusively). As we shared and discussed and listened, I found myself thinking more and more about what it would mean to truly decolonize the classroom. Th

By Paraskevi Siamitrou Yesterday, I went to see Yorgos Lanthimos' new movie, Bugonia. Lanthimos seems to be taking upon contemporary issues, and making them absurd, grotesque with a crippling violence. And I understand that this artistic point of view contemplates capitalism, the ruthlessness of it. Citizen and consumer lines are fuzzy. A subjectivity composed of a gruesome Big Other, capital accumulation, signifiers and language attuned to the very big desire: produce, relen

By Alessandra Cuzzolino Modern Western academia, including the humanities and social sciences, is based on the reproduction of colonial systems of knowledge. What counts as knowledge, who is authorised to produce it, and which voices are legitimised within the academic discourse, have historically been shaped by Eurocentric views over ontology – the philosophical study of being – and epistemology – the philosophical study of knowledge. These European perspectives aim to place

By Roos van der Velde . This article was written in collaboration with Jana from Debt for Climate . Illustration by Julie M. Elman Coming from the Netherlands, a culture that is uncomfortable -to say the least- with speaking about money, I had learned the complexities of conversations on money and power. Still, debt had always remained a scary topic for me… anything with finances and economics really. We had touched on reparations and wealth in our discussions, however, comfo

Written by Frances Rosenberg “…and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.’" — Genesis 1:28 Western culture has been built on the foundations of human exceptionalism—a view of nature as separate from and far below the (“right” kind of) human. But where do these foundations come from? And are they universal acro