Is Racism an Environmental Threat?

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-7456-9227-2
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 121 mm x 188 mm, Gewicht: 167 g

Reihe: Debating Race

The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life. This trenchant book examines its relation to Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today, showing how both share roots in domination, colonialism, and the logics of capitalism.

Ghassan Hage proposes that both racism and humanity's destructive relationship with the environment emanate from the same mode of inhabiting the world: an occupying force imposes its own interest as law, subordinating others for the extraction of value, eradicating or exterminating what gets in the way.

In connecting these two issues, Hage gives voice to the claim taking shape in many activist spaces that anti-racist and ecological struggles are intrinsically related. In both, the aim is to move beyond what makes us see otherness, whether human or nonhuman, as something that exists solely to be managed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hage, Ghassan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1 Islamophobia and the becoming-wolf of the Muslim other

2 Islamophobia and the dynamics of ecological and colonial over-exploitaion

3 The elementary structures of generalized domestication

Conclusion: Negotiating the wolf

Über Autor(innen)

Ghassan Hage is Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne