WEEK 8 READINGS (Sultana "climate coloniality" / Hughes "victim slot" / Mathews "unlikely alliances") Flashcards
(SULTANA) Because depol is not working, Sultana calls for ____ of COP26 …
Re-politicization
(SULTANA) Instead of “climate change”, Sultana suggests …
“Climate coloniality”
(SULTANA) Change must come from …
THE STATE
(SULTANA) the shrinking spaces of
being otherwise and doing differently need to be acknowledged
the whitemanthropocene
(SULTANA)
(HUGHES) Trinidad spearheads the creation of what group …
AOSIS - Alliance of Small Island States
(HUGHES) Trinidad is both in the victim slot and affecting the boomerang effect. Kari Norgaard calls this …
implicatory denial
(HUGHES) vulnerability pushed ____ to the margins
responsibility
(HUGHES) Trinidad wants to be rich, but with …
the exemptions of a small, poor country
(HUGHES) What we need is a NEW PRODUCT known as …
“Carbon Conscience”
(Mathews) How would “desiccation theory” affect Mexico?
Deforestation causes rainfall to decline while also causing flooding.
(Mathews) Antonio Gramsci, Marxist scholar … say what?
consider within the same framework both domination and resistance, complicity and co-option, and elite and popular culture
(Mathews) the boundary between science and non-science is
culturally produced
(Mathews) Action Network Theory (ANT) allows us to …
look less at actors and more at nodes
(Mathews) How did Mexican Gov manage to gain control of forest communities?
Degradation narrative (deforestation)
(Mathews) Who causes the flooding in the end?
The Gov industrial logging program. Blamed on Indigenous.
(Mathews) Popular public belief about forests and rainfall are …
co-opted by officials who don’t believe it
(Mathews) What is the example of the “recycling of international discourse of indigenous ecological wisdom” ?
“the Zapotec are the “Cloud People” and the elders protect “the place where water is born”
(Mathews) Foucault applies how …?
officials empowered over indigenous people / peasants
(Mathews) Edward Said’s “Traveling Theory” =
how long an idea can circulate before it dies or is forgotten
