Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World (Critical South)

by Malcom Ferdinand

Other authorsAngela Y. Davis (Foreword), Anthony Paul Smith (Translator)
Paperback, 2022

Publication

Polity (2022), Edition: 1, 300 pages

ISBN

1509546235 / 9781509546237

Notes

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Index of Ships
Acknowledgements
Foreword – Angela Davis
Prologue

PART 1: The Modern Tempest: Environmental Violence and Colonial Ruptures
1: Colonial Inhabitation: An Earth without a World
2: The Matricides of the Plantationocene
3: The Hold and the Negrocene
4: The Colonial Hurricane

PART 2: Noah’s Ark: When Environmentalism Refuses the World
5: Noah’s Ark: Boarding, or the abandonment of the world
6: Reforesting without the World (Haiti)
7: Paradise or Hell in the Nature Preserves (Puerto Rico)
8: The Masters’ Chemistry (Martinique and Guadeloupe)
9: A Colonial Ecology: At the Heart of the Double Fracture

PART 3: The Slave Ship: Rising Up from Modernity’s Hold in Search of a World
10: The Slave Ship: Debarking Off-World
11: Maroon Ecology: Fleeing the Plantationocene
12: Rousseau, Thoreau, and Civil Marronage
13: A Decolonial Ecology: Rising up from the hold

PART 4: A World-Ship: World-Making Beyond the Double Fracture
14: A World-Ship: Politics of encounter
15: Forming a Body in the World: Reconnecting with a Mother-Earth
16: Interspecies Alliances: The Animal Cause and The Negro Cause
17: A Worldly-Ecology: On the Bridge of Justice

Epilogue
World-Making
The Intrusion of Ayiti
Recovering the Sun of Africa
Notes
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