"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
List of IllustrationsIndex of ShipsAcknowledgementsForeword - Angela DavisProloguePart 1: The Modern Tempest: Environmental Violence and Colonial RupturesChapter 1: Colonial Inhabitation: An Earth without a WorldChapter 2: The Matricides of the PlantationoceneChapter 3: The Hold and the NegroceneChapter 4: The Colonial HurricanePart 2: Noah's Ark: When Environmentalism Refuses the WorldChapter 5: Noah's Ark: Boarding, or the abandonment of the worldChapter 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 FracturePart 3: The Slave Ship: Rising Up from Modernity's Hold in Search of a WorldChapter 10: The Slave Ship: Debarking Off-WorldChapter 11: Maroon Ecology: Fleeing the PlantationoceneChapter 12: Rousseau, Thoreau, and Civil MarronageChapter 13: A Decolonial Ecology: Rising up from the holdPart 4: A World-Ship: World-Making Beyond the Double FractureChapter 14: A World-Ship: Politics of encounterChapter 15: Forming a Body in the World: Reconnecting with a Mother-EarthChapter 16: Interspecies Alliances: The Animal Cause and The Negro CauseChapter 17: A Worldly-Ecology: On the Bridge of JusticeEpilogueWorld-MakingThe Intrusion of AyitiRecovering the Sun of AfricaNotes
Malcom Ferdinand is a researcher in political ecology and environmental humanities at the CNRS and Université Paris Dauphine-PSL.