Nuestra ciencia as transborder ecological knowledge and survival
Anneleise Azúa
Abstract:This article frames what one of my collaborators calls nuestra ciencia (our science) as a concept that expresses a transborder worldview based on region‐specific scientific land and healing practices. I trace the ways Indigenous science came into fierce conflict with the twentieth‐century wave of Anglo settler‐colonial land grabs in south Texas and how the resulting force of mass agriculture enabled mass destruction and biodiversity loss in the region. It offers an environmental, archival, and ethnographic ana… Show more
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