Decolonial Ecology - Malcom Ferdinand

Decolonial Ecology

Thinking from the Caribbean World
Buch | Softcover
300 Seiten
2021
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-4623-7 (ISBN)
22,40 inkl. MwSt
The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth’s ecosystems and its human and non-human communities and, on the other, a colonial fracture instilled by Western colonization and imperialism that resulted in racial slavery and the domination of indigenous peoples and women in particular.

In this important new book, Malcom Ferdinand challenges this double fracture, thinking from the Caribbean world. Here, the slave ship reveals the inequalities that continue during the storm: some are shackled inside the hold and even thrown overboard at the first gusts of wind. Drawing on empirical and theoretical work in the Caribbean, Ferdinand conceptualizes a decolonial ecology that holds protecting the environment together with the political struggles against (post)colonial domination, structural racism, and misogynistic practices.

Facing the storm, this book is an invitation to build a world-ship where humans and non-humans can live together on a bridge of justice and shape a common world. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in environmental humanities and Latin American and Caribbean studies, as well as anyone interested in ecology, slavery, and (de)colonization.

Malcom Ferdinand is a researcher in political ecology and environmental humanities at the CNRS and Université Paris Dauphine-PSL. 

List of Illustrations

Index of Ships

Acknowledgements

Foreword – Angela Davis


Prologue


Part 1: The Modern Tempest: Environmental Violence and Colonial Ruptures

Chapter 1: Colonial Inhabitation: An Earth without a World

Chapter 2: The Matricides of the Plantationocene

Chapter 3: The Hold and the Negrocene

Chapter 4: The Colonial Hurricane


Part 2: Noah’s Ark: When Environmentalism Refuses the World

Chapter 5: Noah’s Ark: Boarding, or the abandonment of the world

Chapter 6: Reforesting without the World (Haiti)

Chapter 7: Paradise or Hell in the Nature Preserves (Puerto Rico)

Chapter 8: The Masters’ Chemistry (Martinique and Guadeloupe)

Chapter 9: A Colonial Ecology: At the Heart of the Double Fracture


Part 3: The Slave Ship: Rising Up from Modernity’s Hold in Search of a World

Chapter 10: The Slave Ship: Debarking Off-World

Chapter 11: Maroon Ecology: Fleeing the Plantationocene

Chapter 12: Rousseau, Thoreau, and Civil Marronage

Chapter 13: A Decolonial Ecology: Rising up from the hold


Part 4: A World-Ship: World-Making Beyond the Double Fracture

Chapter 14: A World-Ship: Politics of encounter

Chapter 15: Forming a Body in the World: Reconnecting with a Mother-Earth

Chapter 16: Interspecies Alliances: The Animal Cause and The Negro Cause

Chapter 17: A Worldly-Ecology: On the Bridge of Justice


Epilogue

World-Making

The Intrusion of Ayiti

Recovering the Sun of Africa


Notes

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Critical South
Übersetzer Anthony Paul Smith
Vorwort Angela Y. Davis
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 137 x 213 mm
Gewicht 386 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-5095-4623-5 / 1509546235
ISBN-13 978-1-5095-4623-7 / 9781509546237
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