Witch hunts and colonial expropriation

Preciado 145: "Feminist historian Silvia Federici has shown that the witch hunt was a double attempt to appropriate women's bodies as a reproductive force and to end the use of natural resources as 'commons' (meadows, forests, rivers, lakes, wild pastures). The process of enclosing land, expropriating folk widsom, criminalizing practices of 'voluntary intoxication,' and privatizing plant germ plasm was only beginning. It reached its apex in the modern period with the colonial expropriation of plants, animals, human bodies, and knowledges"