WEEK 8 READINGS (Sultana "climate coloniality" / Hughes "victim slot" / Mathews "unlikely alliances") Flashcards

1
Q

(SULTANA) Because depol is not working, Sultana calls for ____ of COP26 …

A

Re-politicization

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(SULTANA) Instead of “climate change”, Sultana suggests …

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“Climate coloniality”

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3
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(SULTANA) Change must come from …

A

THE STATE

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4
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(SULTANA) the shrinking spaces of

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being otherwise and doing differently need to be acknowledged

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5
Q

the whitemanthropocene

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(SULTANA)

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(HUGHES) Trinidad spearheads the creation of what group …

A

AOSIS - Alliance of Small Island States

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(HUGHES) Trinidad is both in the victim slot and affecting the boomerang effect. Kari Norgaard calls this …

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implicatory denial

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8
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(HUGHES) vulnerability pushed ____ to the margins

A

responsibility

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9
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(HUGHES) Trinidad wants to be rich, but with …

A

the exemptions of a small, poor country

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10
Q

(HUGHES) What we need is a NEW PRODUCT known as …

A

“Carbon Conscience”

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11
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(Mathews) How would “desiccation theory” affect Mexico?

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Deforestation causes rainfall to decline while also causing flooding.

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(Mathews) Antonio Gramsci, Marxist scholar … say what?

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consider within the same framework both domination and resistance, complicity and co-option, and elite and popular culture

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13
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(Mathews) the boundary between science and non-science is

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culturally produced

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14
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(Mathews) Action Network Theory (ANT) allows us to …

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look less at actors and more at nodes

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15
Q

(Mathews) How did Mexican Gov manage to gain control of forest communities?

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Degradation narrative (deforestation)

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16
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(Mathews) Who causes the flooding in the end?

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The Gov industrial logging program. Blamed on Indigenous.

17
Q

(Mathews) Popular public belief about forests and rainfall are …

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co-opted by officials who don’t believe it

18
Q

(Mathews) What is the example of the “recycling of international discourse of indigenous ecological wisdom” ?

A

“the Zapotec are the “Cloud People” and the elders protect “the place where water is born”

19
Q

(Mathews) Foucault applies how …?

A

officials empowered over indigenous people / peasants

20
Q

(Mathews) Edward Said’s “Traveling Theory” =

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how long an idea can circulate before it dies or is forgotten