In this short video, Ashley Dawson explains a dissenting tradition within natural history that is capable of cracking open natural history’s imperialist discourses. Finding inspiration in the anarchist tradition, Dawson explores how Peter Kropotkin’s treatise on Mutual Aid troubles the social Darwinist understanding of evolution as a “struggle of each against all,” revealing another story of evolutionary time, grounded not in a logic of competition, but in the collective forms of life that allow human and other-than-human species to survive in times of upheaval.
Edited transcript of the full interview: https://bit.ly/RNH-mutual-aid
