A Decolonial Ecology. Malcom Ferdinand

      1  Cover

      2  Series Title

      3  Title Page

      4  Copyright Page

      5  Table of Ships

      6  List of Illustrations

      7  Dedication

      8  Acknowledgments

      9  Foreword – Angela Y. Davis Notes

      10  Prologue: A Colonial and Environmental Double Fracture A modern tempest Noah’s ark or the colonial and environmental double fracture The slave ship or modernity’s hold A world-ship: the world as a horizon for ecology Reaching the eye of the tempest Notes

      11  Part I The Modern Tempest: Environmental Violence and Colonial Ruptures

      12  1 Colonial Inhabitation: An Earth without a World Principles of colonial inhabitation: geography, exploitation of nature, and othercide Foundations of colonial inhabitation: land grabs, massacres, and land clearing Forms of colonial inhabitation: private property, plantations, and slavery Notes

      13  2 The Matricides of the Plantationocene The end of a nourishing earth: from conucos to plantations The ecumenal rupture: a “land-without-manman” Ruptures in the landscape, biodiversity, and metabolic exchange From colonial inhabitation to the Plantationocene Notes

      14  3 The Hold and the Negrocene Hold politics The refusal of the world Destruction of community ties and affiliations Loss of body, loss of Earth Off-polis: the engineering of a non-political being The specificity of the condition of enslaved Negresses The Negrocene Notes

      15  4 The Colonial Hurricane The colonial hurricane Shakespeare and Césaire: when the tempest serves the masters’ interests Conrad and Katrina: when the tempest creates the world’s holds Turner and the Zong: the pretext-tempest for throwing the world overboard The politics of the colonial hurricane and global warming Notes

      16  Part II Noah’s Ark: When Environmentalism Refuses the World

      17  5 Noah’s Ark: Boarding, or the Abandonment of the World Noah’s ark: an imaginary of environmentalist discourse Boarding politics Loss-bodies Astronauts on Earth Abandoning the world: the Noahs Figures of the world’s refusal Notes

      18  6 Reforestation without the World (Haiti) Technocentric discourse and the off-world Unjustly blaming Maroons and peasants Reforestation without the world; or, the sacrifice of peasants The parc de la Visite massacre of July 23rd, 2012 At the origin: colonial inhabitation and the Maroon fracture of the world World-making to reforest the Earth Notes

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