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Book Review: Decolonial Ecology: Thinking From the Caribbean World

Book Review: Decolonial Ecology: Thinking From the Caribbean World 1147555 CGJ0010.1177/14744740221147555cultural geographiesBook Review book-review2023 cultural geographies 1 –3 Book Review © The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions journals.sagepub.com/home/cgj Decolonial Ecology: Thinking From the Caribbean World. By Malcom Ferdinand. Cambridge: Polity Press. 2022. 300 pp. £17.99 Paperback/£55 Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-509-54622-0. DOI: 10.1177/14744740221147555 There is no shortage of examples of the entwined violences of systemic racism and ecological destruction. Extreme climate events including wildfires, storms and floods, as well as ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and global cost of living crisis all disproportionately impact people of colour, whose voices are marginalised in efforts to address these crises. Tracing alter- native historical and ecological genealogies, Malcom Ferdinand’s important book (originally published in French with Editions Seuil in 2019, and lucidly translated here by Anthony Paul Smith), examines how these social and environmental emergencies have rarely been conceptu- alised or challenged as intersecting, nor have they been understood as rooted in colonisation, imperialism and slavery which established destructive and exploitative ways of ‘inhabiting the earth’ (p. 26). Throughout his astute analysis, Ferdinand seeks to address what he terms the ‘dou- ble fracture of modernity’ (p. 8) – one that separates colonial and environmental histories – and lays the foundations for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

Book Review: Decolonial Ecology: Thinking From the Caribbean World

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Cultural Geographies , Volume OnlineFirst: 1 – Jan 1, 2023
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1147555 CGJ0010.1177/14744740221147555cultural geographiesBook Review book-review2023 cultural geographies 1 –3 Book Review © The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions journals.sagepub.com/home/cgj Decolonial Ecology: Thinking From the Caribbean World. By Malcom Ferdinand. Cambridge: Polity Press. 2022. 300 pp. £17.99 Paperback/£55 Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-509-54622-0. DOI: 10.1177/14744740221147555 There is no shortage of examples of the entwined violences of systemic racism and ecological destruction. Extreme climate events including wildfires, storms and floods, as well as ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and global cost of living crisis all disproportionately impact people of colour, whose voices are marginalised in efforts to address these crises. Tracing alter- native historical and ecological genealogies, Malcom Ferdinand’s important book (originally published in French with Editions Seuil in 2019, and lucidly translated here by Anthony Paul Smith), examines how these social and environmental emergencies have rarely been conceptu- alised or challenged as intersecting, nor have they been understood as rooted in colonisation, imperialism and slavery which established destructive and exploitative ways of ‘inhabiting the earth’ (p. 26). Throughout his astute analysis, Ferdinand seeks to address what he terms the ‘dou- ble fracture of modernity’ (p. 8) – one that separates colonial and environmental histories – and lays the foundations for

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