Decolonising conservation in the UK by Aileen Angsutorn Lees

Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Aileen Angsutorn Lees and teaches us How the language and ideals of white environmentalism reinforce fascist narratives.

Aileen (she/her) is a writer, photographer and activist based in Scotland. Passionate about dismantling narratives of dominating and extracting nature, she set up the project Decolonising The Outdoors and organises community events @decolonisingtheoutdoors

What can you do?

Do:

• Support intersectional environmental organisations lobbying government and industry for climate justice, such as Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace
• Find out more about Pesticide Action Network UK

Read:

• Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee
• How Have the Forests of “Israel” Swallowed Our Unpopulated Land?
• Beyond the War on Invasive Species by Tao Orion
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plantsby Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Other shado articles on decolonisation, climate justice, indigenous movements and Palestine

Listen:

• shado-lite’s podcast episode on settler colonialism in historic Palestine
• The Botanical Mind podcast episode on the coloniality of planting

Watch:

• Foragers (2022), a Palestinian documentary which interrogates settler colonial power and narratives of conservation

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