global north global south. september 2021.
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GLOBAL NORTH/GLOBAL SOUTH
Some links which maybe of interest generally relating to the Global North Global South Divide which often relates back historically to colonialism.
CONSUMING NATURE. MARCH is a journal of art & strategy. October 2021. This article at first viewing comes across as a complex in-depth meditation on colonial exploitation and so forth which should reward the reader with some useful insights. All the best.
https://march.international/consuming-nature/
I reproduce below from the above link the actual Introduction:
Introduction by Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz
Can we criticize colonialism without criticizing capitalism? It is commonplace to think about European colonialism by way of imperial representations (Spanish colonialism, English colonialism, French colonialism, etc.), but that is only half of the story. While colonialism is important as a structural element with which to rethink history – and to engage with our present in terms of social justice, equality, and anti-racism – it is also important not to attribute colonialism solely to a flag or a crown, while leaving out the responsibilities of corporate interests and private investment in the colonial enterprise. In other words, the history of European colonialism is inseparably linked to the history of capitalism. The idea of freedom promoted by capitalist ideology and its so-called free markets might seem contradictory to the atrocious forms of racialized oppression, genocides, and ecocides of colonialism – horrors that continue today. However, once we understand the division of domains and shared responsibilities between imperial rule, private investors, and a global market, the factor linking 16th-century colonialism to contemporary forms of neo-colonial and extractivist policies becomes evident: global capitalism, the perverse project that patents life and extorts natural resources from those who have paid for the wealth of persisting colonial powers with their blood and sweat – with their lives – for over 500 years to feed an insatiable system of greed and murder. In “Consuming Nature,” Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas challenge us with a necessary paradigm shift in understanding the nature of colonial exploitation in order to analyze how it has continued up to the present day and to identify more ethical and sustainable alternatives.
Attribution: CONSUMING NATURE. MARCH journal.
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'Moral evil, economic good’: Whitewashing the sins of colonialism. How war, violence and extractivism defined the legacy of the empire in Africa, and why recent attempts to explore the ‘ethical’ contributions of colonialism risk rewriting history and undermining progress.' - Al Jezeera.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/2/26/colonialism-in-africa-empire-was-not-ethical
Another article of interest: