Guy Iota reviewed Dwellers in the land by Kirkpatrick Sale
just a book
1 star
I was curious, then got turned off pretty quickly when three chapters were seriously named in reference to "Gaea".
The quoted works are of white, disproportionately male academics.
The author's idea of bioregionalism is a project for secession within the United States. Apart from the acknowledged lack of convincing evidence for the existence of biological or geopolitical "bioregions", breaking up the US sounded good until I realized this was a project of continued colonization, because it's about continuing settler governments in a new form and is silent about Native peoples' place in that future (like there isn't). It reminded me of the expression "fostering settler futures" I read in one of Max Liboiron's book. Further, in trying to sketch out his "bioregionalism", the author constantly refers to various Indigenous peoples, but merely as props for the validity of his utopia. He doesn't engage with ideas of people from indigenous communities. …
I was curious, then got turned off pretty quickly when three chapters were seriously named in reference to "Gaea".
The quoted works are of white, disproportionately male academics.
The author's idea of bioregionalism is a project for secession within the United States. Apart from the acknowledged lack of convincing evidence for the existence of biological or geopolitical "bioregions", breaking up the US sounded good until I realized this was a project of continued colonization, because it's about continuing settler governments in a new form and is silent about Native peoples' place in that future (like there isn't). It reminded me of the expression "fostering settler futures" I read in one of Max Liboiron's book. Further, in trying to sketch out his "bioregionalism", the author constantly refers to various Indigenous peoples, but merely as props for the validity of his utopia. He doesn't engage with ideas of people from indigenous communities. He conflates anticolonial struggles with European separatisms (like Scottland out of England, Andalusia out of Spain) without a thought about the difference between the gravity of colonial horrors and the much milder problems of European nations' peripheries.
Je l'ai lu traduit en Français et bah j'étais déçu. J'avais qu'à pas être un tel pipou on me l'aurait pas donné tiens.
Fuck white people who claim they're reinventing indigenous wisdom but are actually just horny for the heideggerian (Nazi) idea of "rootedness in the soil"
