{"id":13092,"date":"2017-11-24T23:54:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T22:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/?p=13092"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:11:10","slug":"shela-sheikh-colonialism-cultivation-and-nonhuman-witnessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/2017\/11\/24\/fellow\/shela-sheikh-colonialism-cultivation-and-nonhuman-witnessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Shela Sheikh: Colonialism, Cultivation, and Nonhuman Witnessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Fellowship weekly intensive in November 2017, Fellow Luigi Coppola convenes a number of discussions including a seminar with lecturer and researcher Shela Sheikh on 24 November 2017 to talk about colonialism, cultivation and nonhuman witnessing and resistance to the colonial mode of organizing, appropriating and extracting value.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon session Shela speaks in-depth about the intertwinement of\u00a0colonialism and cultivation looking at how botanical taxonomy\u00a0can be understood as \u201cthe base for all economics,\u201d serving as both a vital medium for European colonial expansion and biologically determinist discourses of race, gender and nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Fellowship weekly intensive in November 2017, Fellow Luigi Coppola convenes a number of discussions including a seminar with lecturer and researcher Shela Sheikh on 24 November 2017 to talk about colonialism, cultivation and nonhuman witnessing and resistance to the colonial mode of organizing, appropriating and extracting value. In the afternoon session [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"fellowship":[55],"class_list":["post-13092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fellowship","fellowship-2017-2018"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13730,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions\/13730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13092"},{"taxonomy":"fellowship","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fellowship?post=13092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}