Society member Malcom Ferdinand’s new book Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World has been published by Polity. Inspired by the works of Caribbean thinkers, Ferdinand has conceptualized a decolonial ecology that sees protecting the environment as something existing in the same space as struggles against “postcolonial domination”—an important idea that will certainly make this book of value to scholars in the environmental humanities interested in the connections between colonialism and the environment.
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.
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