> Shah identifies the emergence of biological taxonomy, the naming of things, as the historical moment when we decided that nature, which had never stopped moving and evolving, was actually fixed. Carl #Linnaeus, “the sex-crazed Swedish taxonomist”, becomes the founding father of a political principle of nativism that can be summed up simply: “We belong here. They belong there.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/07/the-next-great-migration-by-sonia-shah-review-why-people-wander
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> #Migration, crudely put, equals disorder.
If we are to escape this way of thinking, we will have to dispense with the deep-seated assumption that peoples and species are fixed to specific parts of the planet; a “stillness”, as Shah puts it, that sits “at the centre of our ideas about the past”..
Study of genetic material found in ancient bones also suggests that, .. “We’ve been migrants all along.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/26/the-next-great-migration-by-sonia-shah-review-movement-is-central-to-human-history
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