It's that indigenous relationship which has kept me from applying to the National Parks Service or Bureau of Land Management. I don't think they'd put a researcher out on the front lines of a pipeline protest but I wouldn't want to enable coworkers doing that or be under the supervisor who orders it.
My aunt's an ecologist that worked for the feds as a researcher her whole career and I don't think she ever knew anyone that was involved with colonial crackdowns on land defense actions.
There's still a colonial relationship between settler science and the land probably but it's way more indirect than knowing anyone who's putting boots on necks.
Unless you go private practice, where instead of research you'll be rubber stamping EISes that let settler corps continue to do whatever they want.
rangers / forest wardens have been widely used to do big racism, but there can be good forest cops tho
It's that indigenous relationship which has kept me from applying to the National Parks Service or Bureau of Land Management. I don't think they'd put a researcher out on the front lines of a pipeline protest but I wouldn't want to enable coworkers doing that or be under the supervisor who orders it.
My aunt's an ecologist that worked for the feds as a researcher her whole career and I don't think she ever knew anyone that was involved with colonial crackdowns on land defense actions.
There's still a colonial relationship between settler science and the land probably but it's way more indirect than knowing anyone who's putting boots on necks.
Unless you go private practice, where instead of research you'll be rubber stamping EISes that let settler corps continue to do whatever they want.