DeColonize EcoModernism! - Ariel Salleh

DeColonize EcoModernism!

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Buch | Softcover
312 Seiten
2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-7760-0 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
In the 21st century, the old colonial attitude of terra nullius, meaning a vacant place free for the taking, still lurks behind the global economic expropriation of peoples’ lands and bodies. Today, that theft is rationalised internationally by ecomodernist policy. This book engages with the patriarchal-colonial-capitalist mindset of the contemporary Androcene and its threats to Life-on-Earth, including global warming and nuclear risks, mining and the gene trade, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digital coloniality.

Ariel Salleh spells out the social and ecological contradictions set in motion by neocolonialism. Inspired by decolonial thinkers from Arturo Escobar to Tyson Yunkaporta, and critics of technology like Vandana Shiva and Shoshana Zuboff, she argues that dispossession of First Nation peoples’ livelihoods is not healed by consumerism in the name of ‘development’. Breaking with ecomodernist policy such as ‘the tech fix’ of mainstream environmentalists, Salleh contests the patriarchal-colonial-capitalist imperium and its advocacy of Green New Deals, Earth Governance, Sustainable Development Goals, and Smart Futures.

Worldwide many decolonial activists see through the zero-sum imagination and its Earth Summits. Youth too, is defying the capitalist ruling class extinction trajectory, and some even challenge the fashionable post-human ideology circulating in high-tech quarters. Beyond ‘exchange value’, these Others of the Androcene are calling for self-governing bioregional futures, respectful of indigenous skills; they want local food sovereign economies, which meet people’s needs while protecting nature’s ‘metabolic value’.

Spelling out the biopolitical violence of digitalization and genetic engineering, this book traces two decades of creative defiance by global peoples’ movements against the contradictions of ecomodernist development and its ongoing imposition by nation states and international agencies.

Ariel Salleh is Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa; former Senior Fellow in Post-Growth Societies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany and Research Associate in Political Economy, University of Sydney, Australia. She is author and editor of many books including Ecofeminism as Politics (ZED, 2017).

Foreword

1. Resisting Extinction - Youth Joins the Dots
The Anthropocene - The Androscene - 1/0 logic - Entangled Frames

2. Terra Nullius - Consuming Lands and Bodies
Extractivism - Exterminism - Biocolonialism - The Master Law

3. The 2030 Agenda - UN Sustainable Development Goals
Fixing Poverty - Redesign Initiative - Finance - Old Episteme - False Consensus - Another Way

4. Global Synergies - Livelihoods or Lifestyles?
The Activist - The Teacher

5. Nuclear Risks - Voices for Life-on-Earth
Denialism - Women's Collectives - For Life-on-Earth - Enough Looting! - Postscript

6. Green New Deals - for Globalisation Lite
UK & UNEP - Transatlantic - Australia - US Democrats - EU & DiEM25 - DSA-USA - Othered-deals

7. Buen Vivir - Ecomodernist v Andean Strategy
Strategy I - Embodying Debt - Strategy II - Back to Dependency - Metabolic Value - Eco-Sufficiency

8. Climate Science - and Water - Coming to our Senses
Carbon Fetishism - Methodological Forcing - Scale v Responsibility - People's Science

Conclusion

9. The Gene Trade - Organised Irresponsibility
Measurable Units - Unpredictable Risk - Matters Outstanding - Co-existence - Synthetic Biology - Andro ethics

10. Another Future is Possible! - Holding Ground
Others - Hierarchy - Stakeholders - Coloniality - Bio-civilisation - Hope

11. Earth Governance - Uncertainty Principle Revisited
Conceptual Fit - Multi-scalar - Ecomodernism - Boundaries - Complexity - Steering Laissez-faire - Validity

12. Food Sovereignty - Another Way in China
Internal Colonies - Benefit-sharing? - Racist Science - Meta-industrial Labour

13. The Smart ResSet - Digitised Citizens
The Fourth IR - Internet of Things - Captured Agencies - Climate Impacts - Colonising Space

14. The Androscene - Structures of Feeling
Nonidentity - Anthro or Andro - Pre-Oedipal dynamic - Fathers of Affect - Posthuman Actants - Hyper-objects

15. Testing Coloniality - Everyday Contradictions
Modernity - Data Sovereignty - Double-binds - Decoupling? - Convivial Degrowth

16. Re-Worlding - A Prefigurative Commons
Local is Global - Good Fit with Country

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.1.2025
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4742-7760-8 / 1474277608
ISBN-13 978-1-4742-7760-0 / 9781474277600
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