Mariel’s Reviews > Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Human Ecology in the Arctic (Northern Lights, 12) > Status Update
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“The idea of the diverse people of the north as primitive is racist. It is a self-affirming and self-congratulatory construct which places Euro-American culture at the pinnacle of civilization. It justifies subjugation in the form of manifest destiny.”
— Mar 25, 2025 01:21PM
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“Mapping is an act of demarcation which creates boundaries and constructs identities. Geography, as a language, is imbued with spatial metaphors revealing the exercise of power… As a practical instrument of colonial power, the map enabled access to ‘new’ lands.”
— Mar 25, 2025 01:23PM
Mariel
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“Describing diversity by means of a category such as species is to standardize diversity. Diversity is dynamic, not static.”
— Mar 25, 2025 01:23PM
