{"product_id":"decolonial-ecology-thinking-from-the-caribbean-world-9781509546220","title":"Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFacing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Malcom Ferdinand brilliantly breaks away from the spider web of canonical ecological narratives and arguments. The wrongdoing of modernity is diagnosed from the decolonial Caribbean experience of coloniality. \u003ci\u003eDecolonial Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e reveals – through the power of storytelling – that the sacralization of reason, statistics, and mega-data has prevented us from realizing that ecological and colonial problems cannot be solved within the blindness of the Western modernity that created the problems.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter D. Mignolo, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Decolonial Investigations\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This book is a powerful political and scholarly statement that exposes, in order to undermine, reductive enframings of modernity that themselves sustain epistemological barriers between groups that should be on the same side. Its richest contributions lie in the Caribbean-inspired, creolised deployment of political concepts, and of thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Henry David Thoreau, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. For example, Ferdinand spends considerable time building the conceptual framework of “the Maroon” from the history and modern-day descendants of escaped slaves – people who rejected their oppression and had to live off the land and forge a new creolised culture and identity in the mountains – to build a fresh ecological political theory of freedom. […] The book is a provocation to those thinkers who stress the importance of thinking about the environment through the perspective of geological time, which is a temporal horizon that considers the details of events like colonialism to be insignificant on a planetary scale. Ferdinand’s work is a vehement rejection of that move, an insistence that any thought about modernity’s “crisis” must start with the racist and ecocidal violence of colonialism that created it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrace Garland, Environmental Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Ferdinand’s Decolonial Ecology contributes to a rich history of anti-colonial Afro-Caribbean philosophy, cements Caribbean values within the global environmental justice movement, and speaks to the struggles of marginalised people around the world as they attempt to shape a world that includes their own visions for the future.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnvironmental Values\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index of Ships\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Foreword – Angela Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Prologue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: The Modern Tempest: Environmental Violence and Colonial Ruptures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Colonial Inhabitation: An Earth without a World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: The Matricides of the Plantationocene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: The Hold and the Negrocene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: The Colonial Hurricane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Noah’s Ark: When Environmentalism Refuses the World \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Noah’s Ark: Boarding, or the abandonment of the world\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Reforesting without the World (Haiti)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Paradise or Hell in the Nature Preserves (Puerto Rico)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: The Masters’ Chemistry (Martinique and Guadeloupe)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: A Colonial Ecology: At the Heart of the Double Fracture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 3: The Slave Ship: Rising Up from Modernity’s Hold in Search of a World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: The Slave Ship: Debarking Off-World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: Maroon Ecology: Fleeing the Plantationocene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12: Rousseau, Thoreau, and Civil Marronage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13: A Decolonial Ecology: Rising up from the hold\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 4: A World-Ship: World-Making Beyond the Double Fracture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14: A World-Ship: Politics of encounter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15: Forming a Body in the World: Reconnecting with a Mother-Earth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16: Interspecies Alliances: The Animal Cause and The Negro Cause\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 17: A Worldly-Ecology: On the Bridge of Justice \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e World-Making\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Intrusion of Ayiti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Recovering the Sun of Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49531462123863,"sku":"9781509546220","price":57.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781509546220.jpg?v=1731883181","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/decolonial-ecology-thinking-from-the-caribbean-world-9781509546220","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}