Colonial conservation legacies made anticolonial leaders justifiably hostile to environmentalism

Evidence

There is a risk of retrofitting flexible contemporary meanings of environmentalism anachronistically to earlier eras when anticolonial struggles over land rights and political independence clashed, again and again, with colonial legacies of conservation that were invariably racist and became emblematic of environmentalism in a decolonizing age. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 798

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to chapter 28’s colonial megafauna conservation displacing people and the settler-colonial land strand of the polyad. — connects to: Indigenous environmental organizers rejected white-hierarchy governance models outright — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 623; Conservation efforts get framed as colonial threats to national sovereignty — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2533; Colonial progress destroys cultural ecosystems as thoroughly as ecological ones — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 256 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Conservation efforts get framed as colonial threats to national sovereignty #expands (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2533
• Habitat restoration and colonial progress both impose narrow ideas of good #corroborates (0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 311
• Colonial peoples were naturalised alongside their land as savage nature to be tamed #corroborates (0.80) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 404
• Colonial progress destroys cultural ecosystems as thoroughly as ecological ones #corroborates (0.75) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 256