Co-Creating Commons with Earth Others: Decolonizing the Mastery of Nature (original) (raw)

We can as humans indeed recognize ourselves in nature, and not only as we do when it has been colonized.. . made into a mirror which reflects back only our own species' images and our own need. We can instead recognize in the myriad forms of nature other beings-earth others-whose needs, goals and purposes, like our own, be acknowledged and respected. (Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. Val Plumwood, 1993) "We" on our side, presume to be the ones who have accepted the hard truth that we are alone in a mute, blind, yet knowable world-one that is our task to appropriate… Science, when taken in the singular and with a big S, may indeed be described as a general conquest bent on translating everything that exists into objective, rational knowledge.. . what is called Science, or the idea of a hegemonic scientific rationality, can be understood as itself the product of a colonization process.