A professor in 'inhumane geography' at a leading British university has branded the subject of geology as racist, claiming that it has been heavily influenced by colonisation.
A geography professor at a leading British university has described the study of rocks and the natural world as racist and linked the academic field to 'white supremacy'.
Arguing that geology began as a 'colonial practice', Professor Yusoff stated in her book 'Geologic Life' that the extraction of metals such as gold and iron had created hierarchies, pushed materialism, ravaged environments and was the route cause of climate change. 'Broadly, black, brown, and indigenous subjects… have an intimacy with the earth that is unknown to the structural position of whiteness,' she wrote.
Professor Yusoff's new book focuses on geology between the 17th and 19th centuries and puts forward the notion that non-white people have a clsoer relationship to land than white people However, some third-level academics have been fighting back against the ideas espoused by Professor Yusoff and the backers of the 'decolonisation agenda'.
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