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Conservation challenges and opportunities for native apple (Malus) species in Canada

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Apple, one of the world's most widely cultivated and economically important fruit crops, has two wild relatives native to Canada. In this review, we describe the importance of these native apple species to Indigenous heritage and the current threats the species faces due to pests, diseases, and habitat loss.
Terrell T. Roulston, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Mckenna Batstone, Kyle Bobiwash, Sylvia Grace Borda, Dionne Bunsha, Claudia Ciotir, Brian C. Husband, Paul Manning, Tara L. Moreau, Amritpal S. Singh, Tyler W. Smith, Jens Ulrich, Zoë Migicovsky   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategies for Colonizing Death: The Online Dead, Griefbots, and Transhumanist Dragons

Religions
Digital immortality and transhumanist longevity proposals are currently researched and debated independently. This essay claims that both ideas represent two sides of the same cultural denial of death, reconceptualizing them as interconnected forms of ...
Raquel Ferrández
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative political economy of capitalism, communism, slavery and colonialism in a nutshell [PDF]

, 1978
Yvo M. I. Dirickx, Murat R. Sertel
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski, Łukasz Walas, Marzenna Guzicka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Okinawa and American Colonialism [PDF]

, 1971
Mark Selden
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‘Attitude Problems’: Racializing Hierarchies of Affect in Post‐Brown U.S. Science Education

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Attending to the affect of minoritized students now appears crucial to promoting just and dignity‐affirming science education. Yet, elevating affect as an objective of science learning has a history that predates equity reforms. This study explores the politics of scientific uptakes of affect that have long served to mark hierarchical ...
Kathryn L. Kirchgasler
wiley   +1 more source

Without Rethinking Colonialism and Racialization, a Sustainable Future is Not Possible

Lateral
In this article, I talk about the performances of global capitalism, its relation to colonization and racialization, and the ways it hinders the well-being of vulnerable bodies. An understanding of the relation between post-colonialism and post-socialism
Marina Gržinić
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Medieval Colonialism: Postcrusade Exploitation of Islamic Valencia [PDF]

, 1976
C. J. Bishko
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The Emotional Valence of Hyperrationality in STEM Learning: Reinscriptions and Contestations of Coloniality

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As part of the special issue Centering Affect and Emotion Toward Justice and Dignity in Science Education, this paper examines the emergence and performance of hyperrationality in STEM classrooms. Hyperrationality describes verbal and embodied expressions whereby learners try to maintain an appearance of neutrality and emotional distance to ...
Natalie R. Davis, Thomas M. Philip
wiley   +1 more source

Labouring and Smiling: Re-Imagining Digital Colonialism in Africa, Silicon Valley Big Techs, and the Politics of Prosumer Capitalism in Nigeria

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
Does Africa suffer from the paucity of epistemic inquiry on digital capitalism, mostly, spearheaded by social media platforms within the confines of the global digital economy?
Paul A. Obi
doaj   +1 more source