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Decolonial Ecology
Thinking from the Caribbean World
Series: Critical South
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Ideal for students and scholars interested in environmental humanities, Latin American and Caribbean studies, ecology, slavery, and decolonisation.
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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 civilisation 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 colonisation 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 conceptualises 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)colonisation.
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Walter D. Mignolo praises the book for breaking away from traditional ecological narratives by grounding its insights in Caribbean colonial experience. He highlights Ferdinand's storytelling power in revealing how Western modernity has obscured solutions to ecological and colonial problems. The book is recognised as a strong political and scholarly work that challenges divisive modernity frameworks and creatively employs Caribbean-inspired political thought.
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ISBN: 9781509546237
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 November 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Contributors:
- Translated by Anthony Paul Smith
- Foreword by Angela Davis
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 137.0mm
Height: 213.0mm
Weight: 386g
Pages: 300
About the Author
Malcom Ferdinand is a researcher in political ecology and environmental humanities at the CNRS and Université Paris Dauphine-PSL.
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