Decolonial Ecology

Malcom Ferdinand is a researcher in political ecology and environmental humanities at the CNRS and Université Paris Dauphine-PSL.

List of Illustrations Index of Ships Acknowledgements Foreword - Angela Davis Prologue Part 1: The Modern Tempest: Environmental Violence and Colonial Ruptures Chapter 1: Colonial Inhabitation: An Earth without a World Chapter 2: The Matricides of the Plantationocene Chapter 3: The Hold and the Negrocene Chapter 4: The Colonial Hurricane Part 2: Noah's Ark: When Environmentalism Refuses the World Chapter 5: Noah's Ark: Boarding, or the abandonment of the world Chapter 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 Fracture Part 3: The Slave Ship: Rising Up from Modernity's Hold in Search of a World Chapter 10: The Slave Ship: Debarking Off-World Chapter 11: Maroon Ecology: Fleeing the Plantationocene Chapter 12: Rousseau, Thoreau, and Civil Marronage Chapter 13: A Decolonial Ecology: Rising up from the hold Part 4: A World-Ship: World-Making Beyond the Double Fracture Chapter 14: A World-Ship: Politics of encounter Chapter 15: Forming a Body in the World: Reconnecting with a Mother-Earth Chapter 16: Interspecies Alliances: The Animal Cause and The Negro Cause Chapter 17: A Worldly-Ecology: On the Bridge of Justice Epilogue World-Making The Intrusion of Ayiti Recovering the Sun of Africa Notes