Re: [gaia] controversy at its best

"El Khatib, Yehia (elkhatib)" <y.elkhatib@lancaster.ac.uk> Wed, 20 September 2017 16:55 UTC

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From: "El Khatib, Yehia (elkhatib)" <y.elkhatib@lancaster.ac.uk>
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To follow up on this:

The whole editorial board resigned in protest of “unacceptable process
around the publication” of the article.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/journals-editorial-board-resign
s-over-colonialism-essay/articleshow/60754617.cms


/yehia






On 16/09/2017 01:57, "gaia on behalf of willi uebelherr"
<gaia-bounces@irtf.org on behalf of willi.uebelherr@riseup.net> wrote:

>
>Yes, dear Vesna and Kurtis. For me, this is the colonialism of the
>colonialism. It is to search a way for colonialise the colonialised
>people and to reestablish the colonial thinking in the powerful NATO++
>environment.
>
>That this text is published in a "western" journal is clear for me. They
>want to destroy all his bad history. The bad conscience of the
>perpetrators.
>
>many greetings, willi
>in this time: Asuncion, Paraguay
>
>
>Am 15/9/2017 um 10:02 schrieb Vesna Manojlovic:
>> (hi, i am mostly lurning here, but this got my attention..)
>> 
>> On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Kurtis Heimerl wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm personally pretty sure this is satire.
>> 
>> i hope you are right.
>> 
>>> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Arjuna Sathiaseelan
>>> <arjuna.sathiaseelan@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>       a paper thats creating a furore within the development community
>>>       http://fooddeserts.org/images/paper0114.pdf
>> 
>> i can imagine why the furore.
>> 
>> i find the argumentation well polished, but full of falacies,
>> entitlement, patronising and morally wrong. it justifies violence and
>> dispossession, destrucion of natural habitats for profit of the
>> "technologically advanced" colonizers, genocides and ecocides...
>> 
>> i don't have enough words to describe my outrage. that this kind of
>> "paper" could be published by a serious academic, in a peer-reviewed
>> "journal", is making me sad.
>> (or can just anyone pretend to be on the editorail of such a journal?)
>> 
>> Vesna
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> for the backgorund: "Wretched of the Earth", Frantz Fanon
>> 
>> https://bookshop.theguardian.com/wretched-of-the-earth.html
>> 
>> Provides inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since, analysing
>> the role of class, race, national culture and violence in the struggle
>> for freedom. In this book, the author makes clear the economic and
>> psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism.
>> 
>> & 
>> 
>>http://www.essential-humanities.net/history-supplementary/european-coloni
>>alism/ 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> community, cooperation, commons, squirrels //
>>http://becha.home.xs4all.nl
>> nature, anarchy, utopia, un-anthropocene // https://www.unciv.nl //
>> @Ms_Multicolor
>> 
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