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Topic: Colonialism and Capitalism

Colonialism and global capitalism have shaped human-environment relationships, often through the imposition of foreign institutions and knowledge systems that undermine Indigenous cosmologies and modes of relating.

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The topic of 'Colonialism and Capitalism' is closely related to the themes and topics explored in the podcast episodes provided.

The first episode, Juanita Sundberg: Challenging "human exceptionalism" and institutions of change, critiques mainstream institutions and knowledge systems that perpetuate colonial and capitalist modes of relating, and highlights the need to challenge these systems.

The second episode, Philip Gooding, "Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), touches on the potential influence of colonialism and the spread of global capitalism on agricultural practices and environmental change in the Indian Ocean World.

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