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 Earths 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.
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: Noahs Ark: When Environmentalism Refuses the WorldChapter 5: Noahs 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 Modernitys 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
