The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of
modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental
fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that
led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth's ecosystems and its
human and non-human communities and, on the other, a colonial
fracture instilled by Western colonization and imperialism that
resulted in racial slavery and the domination of indigenous peoples
and women in particular.
In this important
new book, Malcom Ferdinand challenges this double fracture, thinking
from the Caribbean world. Here, the slave ship reveals the
inequalities that continue during the storm: some are shackled inside
the hold and even thrown overboard at the first gusts of wind.
Drawing on empirical and theoretical work in the Caribbean, Ferdinand
conceptualizes a decolonial ecology that holds protecting the
environment together with the political struggles against
(post)colonial domination, structural racism, and misogynistic
practices.
Facing the storm,
this book is an invitation to build a world-ship where humans and
non-humans can live together on a bridge of justice and shape a
common world. It will be of great interest to students and scholars
in environmental humanities and Latin American and Caribbean studies,
as well as anyone interested in ecology, slavery, and
(de)colonization.