DeColonize EcoModernism!, 9781474277600
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Unmasking ecomodernism: How colonialism fuels environmental destruction, demanding decolonial futures.

DeColonize EcoModernism!

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    312 pages

  • Release Date

    19 February 2025

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Summary

DeColonize EcoModernism: Reclaiming Earth’s Future

In the 21st century, the old colonial attitude of terra nullius, meaning a vacant place free for the taking, still lurks behind the global economic expropriation of peoples’ lands and bodies. Today, that theft is rationalised internationally by ecomodernist policy. This book engages with the patriarchal-colonial-capitalist mindset of the contemporary Androcene and its threats to Life-on-Earth, including global warming and nu…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781474277600
ISBN-10:1474277608
Author:Ariel Salleh
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:312
Release Date:19 February 2025
Weight:488g
Dimensions:23mm x 235mm x 156mm
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Critics Review

In a time of multiple systemic crises, DeColonize EcoModernism! unpacks the extraction, exploitation, and consumption that fuel capital accumulation at great cost to the living Earth and its peoples. Ariel Salleh’s book will enrich intergenerational learning and guide the transversal movement politics so urgently needed as representative democracies flounder. * Jackie Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, USA, and former Editor, Journal of World-Systems Research *Pushing the boundaries of political ecology, DeColonize EcoModernism! is refreshingly transdisciplinary, often astonishing in its scope across subjects, theories, sectors, and the reweaving of academic critique on an activist loom. * Ashish Kothari, Environmentalist, foundation member of Kalpavriksh, India, and Global Tapestry of Alternatives *

About The Author

Ariel Salleh

Ariel Salleh is Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa; former Senior Fellow in Post-Growth Societies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany and Research Associate in Political Economy, University of Sydney, Australia. She is author and editor of many books including Ecofeminism as Politics (ZED, 2017).

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