Feb 01
20160
Carbon Markets | REDD, Foundations, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Social Engineering, USAID, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Achuar Conservation cultural imperialism Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Eco-Colonial Tourism Ecotourism Fundación Pachamama Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Nature Conservancy Pachamama Alliance Rainforest Alliance REDD The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) USAID
"Cultural imperialism can take various forms, so long as it reinforces cultural hegemony. Ecotourism easily fills the role of an opaque vellum that attempts to cover cultural imperialism."
Jan 12
20160
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Achuar Assimilation eco-colonialism FINAE Fundación Pachamama Pachamama Alliance The Ocean Conservancy
"How Indigenous communities, now saddled with intense pressure to allure, seduce and satisfy White privilege, can continue to evolve naturally under such conditions appears to be of little interest to White saviours. Again, as throughout history, the Achuar are presented as the lucky beneficiaries of Western development and ideologies, thereby, yet again, assigned to their historic role as the passive novelties/objects of rapacious colonial ambition."
Jan 12
20160
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Rockefeller Foundation, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Achuar Assimilation colonization Ecuador Kapawi MAF International Pachamama Alliance Rockefeller Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) Waorni warriors
"Today’s 21st century missionaries/NGOs have traded in the baggy hemp trousers and the long tunics of their predecessors for Bagir EcoGir all-organic suits. Espresso-coloured bamboo fibres avec buttons made from dried nuts of tagua palm ecologically harvested from the rainforest. Made exclusively for white male privilege – made possible by those exploited and paid next to nothing in the harvesting of the resources, by those exploited in sweatshops producing clothing they will never be able to afford in their lifetime. On the left, we have male, blond, blue-eyed Jesus. On the right, we have economic growth, and markets as sacrosanct."