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Xanthe Somers Zimbabwe, b. 1992
Seeds for Thought, 2024
Glazed stoneware, handbuilt
Unique work
Unique work
112 x 45 x 45cm
GRXS020
Photo: © Photo Deniz Güzel
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The work 'Seeds for Thought' comments on the colonial project of cultivation; the cultivation of the land and the cultivation of ideas in Zimbabwe and the wider Global South. Colonialists...
The work 'Seeds for Thought' comments on the colonial project of cultivation; the cultivation of the land and the cultivation of ideas in Zimbabwe and the wider Global South.
Colonialists did not only seek to exploit the natural environment for capital gain, but to engineer it, own it and harness it as a weapon of control. Eco-racism relates to both human and environmental injustices that are presumed on race and as Val Daniel aptly states colonialism is “like a rash spread on the skin of the landscape for cash.”
Eco-racism persists, as amassing national wealth and economic growth comes directly from owning nature and having a cheap, inexhaustible resource of humans to use as labor. Therefore substantiating the binary which dictates that both the environment and people that live in the Global South are considered sacrificial.
Colonialists did not only seek to exploit the natural environment for capital gain, but to engineer it, own it and harness it as a weapon of control. Eco-racism relates to both human and environmental injustices that are presumed on race and as Val Daniel aptly states colonialism is “like a rash spread on the skin of the landscape for cash.”
Eco-racism persists, as amassing national wealth and economic growth comes directly from owning nature and having a cheap, inexhaustible resource of humans to use as labor. Therefore substantiating the binary which dictates that both the environment and people that live in the Global South are considered sacrificial.