Posts tagged consumerism
Dr. MAX LIBOIRON on Reorienting Within a World of Plastic [ENCORE] /294
Dr. MAX LIBOIRON on Reorienting Within a World of Plastic [ENCORE] /294

Ayana and Dr. Max Liboiron explore the notion of plastic as kin, oil and petrochemical subsidies, the body burden of plasticizers, the historical construction of disposability, the appropriation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in academia, the feasibility of recycling, and more.

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More Than Human Kin, Shore Ocean Communities, Theory ScholarshipFor The WildMicroplastics, plastic pollution, plastic, marine pollution, waste colonialism, anticolonial, decolonize science, feminist methodology, CLEAR, citizen science, Max Liboiron, discard studies, waste, industrial solid waste, municipal solid waste, garbage, recycling, plastisphere, kindship, consumerism, oil subsidies, packaging, disposability, community peer review, scientific protocol, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Waste & ConvenienceComment
SHA’MIRA COVINGTON on Healing the Fashion Industrial Complex /265
SHA’MIRA COVINGTON on Healing the Fashion Industrial Complex /265

Sha’Mira shares that the fashion industrial complex cannot simply be discussed in terms of environmental impact alone, it must be acknowledged as a loud echo of colonial conquest; not just in terms of extraction of labor and resources, or the outsourcing of pollutants and illness, but also in terms of culture and appropriation.


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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Activism Allyship, Design+Strategy, Globalization, Media Art, Racial Equity Justice, Radical Imagination, The Cost of Capitalism, Transition TransformationFor The WildFashion Industrial Complex, Racial Justice, woke washing, healing justice, natural fibers, organic cotton, greenwashing, sustainability, fashion industry, consumerism, Indigenous Sovereignty, Black Liberation, decolonization, globalization, Critical Race Theory, The Legacy of the U.S. Cotton Economy, Slow Factory Open Education: History of Cotton with Teju Adisa-Farrar, The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara, The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less by Christine PlantComment
Dr. MAX LIBOIRON on Reorienting Within a World of Plastic /156
Dr. MAX LIBOIRON on Reorienting Within a World of Plastic /156

Ayana and Dr. Max Liboiron explore the notion of plastic as kin, oil and petrochemical subsidies, the body burden of plasticizers, the historical construction of disposability, the appropriation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in academia, the feasibility of recycling, and more.

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More Than Human Kin, Shore Ocean Communities, Theory ScholarshipFor The WildMicroplastics, plastic pollution, plastic, marine pollution, waste colonialism, anticolonial, decolonize science, feminist methodology, CLEAR, citizen science, Max Liboiron, discard studies, waste, industrial solid waste, municipal solid waste, garbage, recycling, plastisphere, kindship, consumerism, oil subsidies, packaging, disposability, community peer review, scientific protocol, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Waste & ConvenienceComment