Ecological Revolutions, Carolyn Merchant: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England.
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Ecological Revolutions, Carolyn Merchant: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England.
Description
In Ecological Revolutions, Carolyn Merchant considers two major transformations in New England between 1600 and 1860.
European colonization ravaged indigenous societies and land across the entire continental masses of the Americas. Indigenous nations warned Europeans that their aggression and mishandling of the land would cause a loss of knowledge and precipitate ecological disaster.
The colonial revolution in human relations and ecology ran rampant until the nineteenth century. That is when New England's industrial production unleashed a vicious capitalist economy that would remake the continent a second time, relying on southern cotton grown mainly by enslaved Africans. Just like capturing indigenous land led to the Indian Wars, the contest over slave labor caused the Civil War.
The primary indigenous principle was to love Mother Nature and care for the land in ways that would benefit the seventh generation. European Americans' massive resource extraction radically altered human relations and severely damaged the environment. Indigenous ways of relating intimately to the earth were dismissed, disrupted, and destroyed. Facing the resultant human vulnerability to the 6th mass extinction, we are reaping those consequences today. The alienation of trans people from the land is one consequence needing repair. Indigenous people are returning to the land. Trans people also are trying to join urban gardens and are attending LGBTQ retreats in nature.
BIPOC trans-spiritual practices are inspired by the ancient wisdom and ways of the indigenous nations. We thank them, their ancestors, and the Great Spirit.
European colonization ravaged indigenous societies and land across the entire continental masses of the Americas. Indigenous nations warned Europeans that their aggression and mishandling of the land would cause a loss of knowledge and precipitate ecological disaster.
The colonial revolution in human relations and ecology ran rampant until the nineteenth century. That is when New England's industrial production unleashed a vicious capitalist economy that would remake the continent a second time, relying on southern cotton grown mainly by enslaved Africans. Just like capturing indigenous land led to the Indian Wars, the contest over slave labor caused the Civil War.
The primary indigenous principle was to love Mother Nature and care for the land in ways that would benefit the seventh generation. European Americans' massive resource extraction radically altered human relations and severely damaged the environment. Indigenous ways of relating intimately to the earth were dismissed, disrupted, and destroyed. Facing the resultant human vulnerability to the 6th mass extinction, we are reaping those consequences today. The alienation of trans people from the land is one consequence needing repair. Indigenous people are returning to the land. Trans people also are trying to join urban gardens and are attending LGBTQ retreats in nature.
BIPOC trans-spiritual practices are inspired by the ancient wisdom and ways of the indigenous nations. We thank them, their ancestors, and the Great Spirit.
Source
Second Edition. University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Citation
“Ecological Revolutions, Carolyn Merchant: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England.”, The Historical Development of BIPOC Trans-Spiritual Leadership, LGBTQ Religious Archives Network, accessed May 19, 2024, https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/exhibits/show/bipoc-trans-spiritual/item/2007.