Thanks for this, Jason. What a story. Beautiful and sad. And, yeah, more and more I'm finding that as an ecologist who cares about land and people, it's hard to escape what we've known for so long: the ascendency and amazing versatility of capitalism (what you wrote as "machinery of capitalism and colonialism "). It's just been so damned good at adapting for exploitation of land and labor. I'm working it in to more of my writing (or trying to do so, and not yet succeeding), but I'm learning.
Another really great essay. Unknown history for me, but woefully familiar, what with the way minorities have always been treated and the environment despoiled. The exhumations and too few caskets were a low water mark though... With humans it's always bully or be bullied, exploit or be exploited. That's who we've been. Maybe we can do better though...
Lovely history and commentary on Malaga, and with your family connections, you should write the nonfiction book that this history deserves!
Thanks for this, Jason. What a story. Beautiful and sad. And, yeah, more and more I'm finding that as an ecologist who cares about land and people, it's hard to escape what we've known for so long: the ascendency and amazing versatility of capitalism (what you wrote as "machinery of capitalism and colonialism "). It's just been so damned good at adapting for exploitation of land and labor. I'm working it in to more of my writing (or trying to do so, and not yet succeeding), but I'm learning.
Another really great essay. Unknown history for me, but woefully familiar, what with the way minorities have always been treated and the environment despoiled. The exhumations and too few caskets were a low water mark though... With humans it's always bully or be bullied, exploit or be exploited. That's who we've been. Maybe we can do better though...