ISBN:
9781509550388
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 319 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
Series Statement:
Critical south
Uniform Title:
Une écologie décoloniale
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ferdinand, Malcom, 1985 - Decolonial ecology
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Caribbean Area-History
;
Human ecology
;
Social ecology
;
Electronic books
;
Karibik
;
Kolonialismus
;
Ökologie
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Table of Ships -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Prologue A Colonial and Environmental Double Fracture: The Caribbean at the Heart of the Modern Tempest -- A modern tempest -- Noah's ark or the colonial and environmental double fracture -- The slave ship or modernity's hold -- A world-ship: the world as a horizon for ecology -- Reaching the eye of the tempest -- Part I The Modern Tempest Environmental Violence and Colonial Ruptures -- 1 Colonial Inhabitation: An Earth without a World -- Principles of colonial inhabitation: geography, exploitation of nature, and othercide -- Foundations of colonial inhabitation: land grabs, massacres, and land clearing -- Forms of colonial inhabitation: private property, plantations, and slavery -- 2 The Matricides of the Plantationocene -- The end of a nourishing earth: from conucos to plantations -- The ecumenal rupture: a "land-without-manman" -- Ruptures in the landscape, biodiversity, and metabolic exchange -- From colonial inhabitation to the Plantationocene -- 3 The Hold and the Negrocene -- Hold politics -- The refusal of the world -- Destruction of community ties and affiliations -- Loss of body, loss of Earth -- Off-polis: the engineering of a non-political being -- The specificity of the condition of enslaved Negresses -- The Negrocene -- 4 The Colonial Hurricane -- The colonial hurricane -- Shakespeare and Césaire: when the tempest serves the masters' interests -- Conrad and Katrina: when the tempest creates the world's holds -- Turner and the Zong: the pretext-tempest for throwing the world overboard -- The politics of the colonial hurricane and global warming -- Part II Noah's Ark: When Environmentalism Refuses the World -- 5 Noah's Ark: Boarding, or the Abandonment of the World.
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