{"id":6793,"date":"2016-01-01T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materialinmaterial.org\/wptest2\/?p=6793"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:15:40","slug":"t-j-demos-decolonizing-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materialinmaterial.org\/en\/t-j-demos-decolonizing-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"T.J. Demos, Decolonizing nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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ID et.al.: I4412; Secci\u00f3n: Investigaci\u00f3n\u00a0<\/p>

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Of course, ecology has not always been so defined. In 1866, German biologist Ernst Haeckel coined the term, which designated \u201cthe body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature\u2014the investigation of the total relations of the animal both to its organic and inorganic environment.\u201d Ecology\u2019s disciplinary formation coincided with the height of European colonialism, a regime not limited to the governing of peoples but also the structuring of nature. The colonization of nature, emerging from the Enlightenment principles of Cartesian dualism between human and nonhuman worlds, situated the nonhuman world as objectified, passive, and separate, and \u201celaborated a rationalizing, extractive, dissociative understanding which overlaid functional experiential relations among people, plants and animals.\u201d Destructive and utilitarian, idealized and exoticized nature has been colonized in concept as well as in practice. It entailed a multifarious, complex, and at times contradictory pattern of bureaucratic rationalization, scientific and technological mastery, military domination, integration within the expanding capitalist economy, and legal systematization in order to manage and maximize the possibilities of resource exploitation. In this vein, ecology was far from the innocent discipline Haeckel named; rather, it comprised \u201cthe science of empire.”<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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“The climate justice fight around the world is not just a fight against the [biggest] ecological crisis of all time. It is the fight for a new economy, a new energy system, a new democracy, a new relationship to the planet and to each other, for land, water, and food sovereignty, for Indigenous rights, for human rights and dignity for all. When climate justice wins, we win the world we want. We can\u2019t sit this one out, not because we have too much to lose, but because we have too much to gain.” [2]<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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[2] Miya Yoshitanti<\/strong>, executive director of the Oakland-based Asian Pacific Environmental Network, in a speech during People\u2019s Climate March, New York, September 2014. Cited in Klein, This Changes Everything, 155-56.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An ordinary man of ancient Egypt named Bai, shown in an attitude of prayer, dedicated an ear stele to the god Amun-Re, the “beautiful ram” of the sun, whose three pairs of ears in different colors signify “one who harkens to supplications.”<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[152,151,156,145],"class_list":["post-6793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblioteca","tag-antropoceno","tag-arte","tag-justicia-climatica","tag-naturaleza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materialinmaterial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materialinmaterial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materialinmaterial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materialinmaterial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materialinmaterial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6793"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/materialinmaterial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7030,"href":"https:\/\/materialinmaterial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions\/7030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materialinmaterial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materialinmaterial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materialinmaterial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materialinmaterial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}