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Land - Coggle Diagram
Land
Digital Technology & the Land: The digital world depends on physical resources and spaces like land, minerals, energy, and human labor.
Impacts of the "Cloud": Servers and data centers consume land, power, and water. The cloud is not immaterial; it’s grounded in the land. 
Resource Extraction & Rare Earth Mining: Devices depend on minerals mined from Indigenous lands worldwide. Digital extractives continues colonial patterns of taking without consent.
Digital Colonialism: Data collection mirrors land colonization like mapping, ownership, exploitation.
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Indigenous Knowledge, Stewardship & Resistance Indigenous relationships to land emphasize reciprocity, responsibility, and community — contrasting extractive colonial uses.
Relational Worldview: Land as relative, not resource.
Knowledge systems rooted in land, ceremony, and interdependence.
Continuing Stewardship:
Many Indigenous communities still care for or advocate for these lands. Resistance through ecological restoration, education, and land-back movements.
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Reclamation Through Digital Tools: Indigenous cartographers & scholars use GIS, storytelling websites, and archives to remap territory and reclaim narrative.
Education, Knowledge Production & Power: Knowledge systems shape how people understand land often reinforcing colonial worldviews.
Land as Foundation of Knowledge: Universities built literally and intellectually on land expropriation. “Education as extraction”: knowledge, like land, is mined and commodified.
Digital Knowledge Infrastructure: Archives, databases, and research networks depend on physical land (data centers, fiber cables). The “digital” is grounded in material geography.
Re-mapping Truth: Digital platforms like High Country News use interactive mapping to reveal hidden land histories. This challenges institutional narratives.
Environment and Sustainability: Both land and the digital world have ecological consequences that reflect human values and structures of power.
Ecological Cost of Technology: Data centers’ carbon footprint, energy use, and water cooling. E-waste often dumped on Indigenous or Global South lands.
Climate Change & Land Use: Changing ecosystems directly affect Indigenous communities first. Land mismanagement from colonialism leading to erosion, pollution, displacement.