MA Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
Youth Artivist and Organizer, Amnesty International
Member and Organizer, Hakka House and Kirin Rising
Contributor, Platypus, The CASTAC Blog
Research Interests
Anarchism | Climate Change | Collective Agency | environment | Ethnic Politics | Feminism | gender - power and resistance studies | Human rights and humanitarian assistance | Labour | Oil Politics | political economy | Political Theory | politics | postcoloniality | Relationality | Social Movements | Southeast Asia | Storytelling | The Americas | Water |
About Rachel
Rachel is a Hakka-Malaysian artivist and MA student in Political Science at UBC, where she collaborates with the Human Rights Collective as an ORICE Scholar. She holds an Honours B.SocSc. in Conflict Studies and Human Rights with a minor in Indigenous Studies from the University of Ottawa. Their research interests include critical Indigenous theory, resource-based conflict (extractivism, land and water defenders, genocide-ecocide nexus), anti-colonial resistance movements, and memory justice. You can find her channeling anger into action at a protest, creating visuals for human rights and climate justice campaigns or connecting with other diasporic communities at the grassroots level.
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Contributions to Platypus, The CASTAC Blog
View all of Rachel's posts on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.
There is a Climate Emergency, and It’s Called Colonialism.
When governments declare a climate “emergency,” they rarely name the real emergency at play – colonialism. Crisis-oriented language transforms centuries of dispossession, extraction, and ecological destruction into a sudden problem of “urgency” rather than one of accountability. In doing so, it risks reproducing the very logic that produced such consequences in the first place. (more…) (read more...)