A book talk by Malcom Ferdinand

The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth’s ecosystems and its human and non-human communities and, on the other, a colonial fracture instilled by Western colonization and imperialism that resulted in racial slavery and the domination of indigenous peoples and women in particular. In his new book, Decolonial Ecology, Malcom Ferdinand challenges this double fracture, thinking ecology from the Caribbean world.

In his talk, Malcom Ferdinand will also speak about his work on climate justice as well as the environmental justice struggle around chlordecone and the toxic afterlife of banana plantations in Martinique.