James Wu on Nostr: 100%. The same parallels have been drawn by indigenous elders today, especially in ...
100%. The same parallels have been drawn by indigenous elders today, especially in the context of deployment of research to “help protect” native ecologies.
I forget where I saw it, but the quote was something like “before the troops come, there were always missionaries” by an Aotearoa elder comparing the parallels to universities as absolutely one of the arms of empire that prep the ideological ground (if not the literal ground) for colonization.
I forget where I saw it, but the quote was something like “before the troops come, there were always missionaries” by an Aotearoa elder comparing the parallels to universities as absolutely one of the arms of empire that prep the ideological ground (if not the literal ground) for colonization.