Western science structures are embedded in a deeply rooted settler-colonial mindset. Indigenous traditional knowledge has the potential to overturn western systems destined for doom.
Western science structures are embedded in a deeply rooted settler-colonial mindset. Indigenous traditional knowledge has the potential to overturn western systems destined for doom.
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More than 50 years after the fall of Portugal’s dictatorship, the authoritarian regime still casts a long shadow over this wildfire-prone country.
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Current plans to update our 152-year-old mining laws fail to redress centuries of mineral-extractive colonialism.
As funding drops and institutions change, the study of plants appears to be withering on the vine. That’s letting critical skills go extinct.
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