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Settler colonialism is in the water: Michelle Murphy, ‘Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations’, Cultural Anthropology, 2017

25Nov17

Excerpt: I am looking for words, protocols, and methods that might honor the inseparability of bodies and land, and at the same time grapple with the expansive chemical relations of settler colonialism that entangle life forms in each other’s accumulations, conditions, possibilities, and miseries.

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