Against Nature | Raj Patel & Tina Ngata
The Verso Podcast
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The Colonization of the New World
Kia Mao is an advocate for environmental, indigenous and human rights. She's the author of Kia Mao, Resisting Colonial Fictions. Raj: The idea that certain lives are worth less than those of colonizers was already there by the time Columbus got to the new world. And then we see the sort of codification of that in a series of philosophers and political philosophers, the zenith of which is Descartes.
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