Frances Rosenberg

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 virus” narratives...

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. This festival came...

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 across all of...