Date of Submission
Fall 2024
Academic Program
Architecture
Project Advisor 1
Michael Cohen
Abstract/Artist's Statement
My project focuses on researching the environmental devastation caused by the expansion and imposition of settler colonial practices. I will be examining these practices through the lens of waste accumulation in illegal dumping sites and land degradation by governmental officials due to the expropriation and exploitation of the land. The first part of my project is composed of different sections that focus on introducing key terms and topics that provide a framework on understanding the role of waste accumulation in this project. In chapter 2 I introduce the four case studies that I will be using to help support my analysis on trash accumulation and how it is seen differently within each case study. By analyzing how waste accumulation affects minority communities exposed to occupation and domination of the land, I will study potential forms of resistance in occupied regions like Shuqba, a village in the West Bank under Israeli Administration since 1967. I am utilizing case studies as a tool to compare and identify differences in order to understand and explore ways in which Ecocide (the long-term destruction of an environment) as an agent of settler colonialism might allow organizations to emerge, to resist environmental injustices, and how these highlight ‘waste’ as a form of resistance and liberation.
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Recommended Citation
Brito, Maria Waleska, "Environmental Devastations Caused by the Expansion and Imposition of Settler-Colonialism: Is Resistance Inevitable?" (2024). Senior Projects Fall 2024. 42.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_f2024/42
CHARAS
MST DRAWING 128.jpg (2529 kB)
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra
WC DRAWING 128.jpg (2538 kB)
Warren County, NC
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Young Lords Organization
SHUQBA DRAWING 128.jpg (2662 kB)
Shuqba Village
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