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Series Title
Critical South
The publication of this series is supported by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Series editors: Natalia Brizuela, Victoria Collis-Buthelezi and Leticia Sabsay
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Celso Furtado, The Myth of Economic Development
Eduardo Grüner, The Haitian Revolution
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María Pia López, Not One Less
Pablo Oyarzun, Doing Justice
Néstor Perlongher, Plebeian Prose
Bento Prado Jr., Error, Illusion, Madness
Nelly Richard, Eruptions of Memory
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Decolonial Ecology
Thinking from the Caribbean World
Malcom Ferdinand
Translated by Anthony Paul Smith
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Originally published in French as Une écologie décoloniale: Penser l’écologie depuis le monde caribéen © Editions du Seuil, 2019
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Table of Ships
Conquérant
Planter
Nègre
La Tempête
Noé
Chasseur
Paraíso
Cavendish
Wildfire
Espérance
Escape
Wanderer
Gaïa