Main entry:

Ferdinand, Malcom, author.

Title & Author:

A decolonial ecology : thinking from the Caribbean world / Malcom Ferdinand ; translated by Anthony Paul Smith ; foreword by Angela Y. Davis.

Edition:

English edition.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, [2022]
©2022

Description:

xviii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Series:

Critical south

Notes:
"Originally published in French as Une écologie décoloniale: Penser l'écologie depuis le monde caribéen ©Editions du Seuil, 2019".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Angela Y. Davis -- Prologue : a colonial and environmental double fracture -- Part I. The modern tempest : environmental violence and colonial ruptures -- Colonial inhabitation : an Earth without a world -- The matricides of the plantationocene -- The hold and the negrocene -- The colonial hurricane -- Part II. Noah's Ark : when environmentalism refuses the world -- Noah's Ark : boarding, or the abandonment of the world -- Reforestation without the world (Haiti) -- Paradise or hell in the nature preserves (Puerto Rico) -- The masters' chemistry (Martinique and Guadeloupe) -- A colonial ecology : at the heart of the double fracture -- Part III. The slave ship : rising up from modernity's hold in search of a world -- The slave ship : debarking off-world -- Maroon ecology : fleeing the plantationocene -- Rousseau, Thoreau, and civil marronage -- A decolonial ecology : rising up from the hold -- Part IV. A world-ship : world-making beyond the double fracture -- A world-ship : politics of encounter -- Forming a body in the world : reconnecting with Mother-Earth -- Interspecies alliance : the animal cause and the Negro cause -- A worldly-ecology : on the bridge of justice -- Epilogue: World-making in the face of the tempest.
Translated from the French.

Summary:

"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"--Amazon.com.

ISBN:

9781509546220 (hardback)
1509546227 (hardback)
9781509546237 (paperback)
1509546235 (paperback)
(ePub)
9781509546244

Subject:

Environmental sociology.
Environmental sociology Caribbean Area.
Environmental justice.
Environmental justice Caribbean Area.
Human ecology History.
Imperialism Environmental aspects.
Sociologie de l'environnement.
Justice environnementale.
Justice environnementale Caraïbes (Région)
Impérialisme Aspect de l'environnement.
Human ecology
Caribbean Area

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Smith, Paul Anthony, translator.
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- writer of foreword.
Critical South.

Thinking from the Caribbean world

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318386
Call No.: 318386
Copy: 1
Status: Available