Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten
Reihe: Critical South
Undoing Colonial Inhabitation
Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten
Reihe: Critical South
ISBN: 978-1-5095-7050-8
Verlag: Polity Press
This wide-ranging and ambitious book takes up the story of a quest for a new relation with the Earth, one that uproots the violence inherited from slavery and colonization, and it begins in the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe. In these former French colonies, now overseas departments of France, the use of organic pollutants and endocrine disruptors such as pesticides after the Second World War led to widespread environmental contamination and devastating outcomes for the local population. Malcom Ferdinand focuses on one pesticide in particular, which was used extensively in the growing of bananas for European consumers and is now found in the blood of over ninety per cent of Antilleans, and is associated with severe health risks.
Ferdinand's analysis of chlordecone shows how, in modernity, colonization and environmental destruction were falsely treated as separate issues. His mode of inquiry is truly interdisciplinary, bringing together a wealth of historical, philosophical, scientific, epidemiological, legal, economic and sociological perspectives. Loving the Earth also contains narratives of decolonial revolts – political, legal, scientific and artistic – in the face of this lasting injustice. In the wake of centuries of dehumanization and renewed environmental damage, this book offers an emancipating horizon based on the principles of justice and dignity, and grounded in a politics of love of the Earth.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
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Introduction – Gabrielle Hecht
Prologue: Searching for Earth in the Ruins of Colonial Inhabitation
ACT 1. CONTAMINATED INHABITATION
Toxins that Reinforce Colonial Inhabitation
1. Ecocide: The Trials of the Weevils and the Web of Life
2. Lost Bodies: Environmental Violence and Domination
3. The Antillean Ecumene in Peril: Loss, Collapse, Zombification
4. Alienation from the Lived World: The Masters Sciences of the Vernacular
ACT 2. WRETCHED EARTH
The Colonial Invention of The Other Earth
5. The Bananization of the Antilles: Science and Colonization
6. Cultivating the French Colonial Imaginary through Bananas
7. Equality against Nature? From the Other Nature to the Other of the Law
8. Colonial Capitalism at any Cost
ACT 3. THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH
The Environmental Invention of The Other Body
9. The Production of Ignorance and Discrimination: The Fabrication of the Other Body
10. The Social Question and Hidden Bodies: Workers, Women and Migrants
11. Between Genes and Pesticides: The Epidemiological Invention of Black Antilleans
12. Science And Whiteness: The Dehumanizing Fabrication of The Other Researcher
ACT 4. DECOLONIAL REVOLTS
Fighting For Equality, Justice and Dignity
13. Anti-Master and Anti-Colonial Revolts: Ancestral Struggles
14. Arts And Politics: Creating Dignity, Crying out for Dignity
15. Towards Decolonial Justice
16. Taking over the Sciences: Defences of the Lived World
ACT 5. LOVING OURSELVES THE EARTH
Towards Decolonial Relations
17. Beyond Decontamination: A Politics of Love for the Earth
18. Spinning Metamorphosis: Loving the Earth-Body
19. Undoing the Plantation to Touch the Earth
20. Decolonial Sciences for the Earth
Epilogue. Bélia, The Earth-World
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes
