List of Illustrations
Index of Ships
Acknowledgements
Foreword – Angela Davis
Prologue
Part 1: The Modern Tempest: Environmental Violence and Colonial
Ruptures
Chapter 1: Colonial Inhabitation: An Earth without a World
Chapter 2: The Matricides of the Plantationocene
Chapter 3: The Hold and the Negrocene
Chapter 4: The Colonial Hurricane
Part 2: Noah’s Ark: When Environmentalism Refuses the World
Chapter 5: Noah’s Ark: Boarding, or the abandonment of the
world
Chapter 6: Reforesting without the World (Haiti)
Chapter 7: Paradise or Hell in the Nature Preserves (Puerto
Rico)
Chapter 8: The Masters’ Chemistry (Martinique and Guadeloupe)
Chapter 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
Chapter 10: The Slave Ship: Debarking Off-World
Chapter 11: Maroon Ecology: Fleeing the Plantationocene
Chapter 12: Rousseau, Thoreau, and Civil Marronage
Chapter 13: A Decolonial Ecology: Rising up from the hold
Part 4: A World-Ship: World-Making Beyond the Double Fracture
Chapter 14: A World-Ship: Politics of encounter
Chapter 15: Forming a Body in the World: Reconnecting with a
Mother-Earth
Chapter 16: Interspecies Alliances: The Animal Cause and The Negro
Cause
Chapter 17: A Worldly-Ecology: On the Bridge of Justice
Epilogue
World-Making
The Intrusion of Ayiti
Recovering the Sun of Africa
Notes
Malcom Ferdinand is a researcher in political ecology and environmental humanities at the CNRS and Université Paris Dauphine-PSL.
“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. Decolonial Ecology 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.”
Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Politics of Decolonial
Investigations
“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.”
Grace Garland, Environmental Politics
"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."
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