Une écologie décoloniale : Penser l'écologie depuis le monde caribéen
Creators: Malcolm Ferdinand
Abstract An essay that sheds light on the connections between the ecological crisis and colonialism, and between the exploitation of nature and slavery. The world is in the midst of a storm. Behind its claim to universality and its Noah’s Ark-like imagery, environmental thought has been constructed by obscuring the colonial, patriarchal, and racist foundations of modernity. Thinking about ecology from the perspective of the Caribbean challenges this omission by drawing on a region where imperialism, slavery, and ecocide violently intertwined the fates of Europeans, Indigenous Americans, and Africans. The slave ship serves as a reminder that some are chained in the hold and sometimes thrown overboard at the mere thought of a storm. This is the unacknowledged reality of the dual modern divide that separates colonial domination from environmental destruction. Yet healing this divide remains the key to a “living together” that preserves ecosystems as much as it does human dignity. “Decolonial ecology,” therefore, aims—in the face of the storm—to envision a shared and just world for humans and non-humans alike: a world-ship.
Call number : C.10/FERD/ECOL