The UK’s legacy of exploring and dominating for the purpose of creating wealth for the few still permeates our society and ideologies today.
This zine explores food, farming and seed culture with communities in Scotland that are working towards a decolonial future. It also examines conservation, colonialism and how queer ecologies can change the way we look at the natural world. Through 32 pages of interviews, features, photography, poetry and artwork, Decolonising The Outdoors is a zine of resistance — but also, hope.
With thanks to Glasgow Zine Library for commissioning this zine for ESEA Heritage Month 2024 as part of its Made to Last: Connecting Communities Through Collection programme, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
About the Decolonising The Outdoors project
Decolonising The Outdoors is a creative and community project which dismantles narratives of dominating land and extracting nature. It aims to educate Scottish and British society through the media and the arts, and this work has featured in newspapers, presses, literary journals, poetry anthologies, festivals, exhibitions and podcasts.
It also aims to empower communities through events which focus on rebuilding relationships with our natural environment and imagining anti-imperial, anti-capitalist and queer futures. We run a variety of activities, workshops and discussions on different topics in-person and online, both ourselves and in partnership with different organisations. Our regular events include Reconnect With Nature and our bi-monthly book club.
Across all of this work different aspects of intersectional environmentalism are explored and have so far included: conservation; land; settler colonialism, food systems (agriculture, gardening, seed culture); environmental waste; mass consumption; migration; eco-colonialism; Indigenous practices and wisdom; queer ecology, and; decolonial futurisms.
Decolonising The Outdoors is part of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
