Malcom Ferdinand - A Decolonial Ecology

22 Part III The Slave Ship: Rising Up from Modernity’s Hold in Search of a World

23 10 The Slave Ship: Debarking Off-World The slave ship: the imaginary ark of the Caribbean world Debarkation politics Lost bodies The shipwrecked: off-Earth The Negro: off-world Figures of the flight from the world: rising up from the hold Notes

24 11 Maroon Ecology: Fleeing the Plantationocene Marooning the Anthropocene At the heart of modernity’s double fracture Touching Earth: Maroon matrigenesis Creole metamorphosis: recovering a self, discovering a body The Maroon’s ecology: protectors of the forests The Maroonesses Limits and virtues Notes

25 12 Rousseau, Thoreau, and Civil Marronage John Muir in Cuba: breaking the wall of environmentalism Rousseau or the Maroon walker Thoreau cut in two Thoreau, defender of the Maroons The enslaved to Black enslavement: the other people enslaved by the Plantationocene Civil marronage Civil Maroonesses and the White women against slavery A civil marronage from the Plantationocene Notes

26 13 A Decolonial Ecology: Rising Up from the Hold From the colonial fracture to the environmental fracture From the environmental fracture to the colonial fracture Unsettling the Anthropocene: the Ayiti hypothesis Decolonial ecology’s struggles: rising up from the modern hold Notes

27 Part IV A World-Ship: World-Making beyond the Double Fracture

28 14 A World-Ship: Politics of Encounter Noah’s ark and the slave ship: two wanderings of the same modernity The environmentalist return: continuing the colonial refusal of the world Maroon returns: pursuit of the infinite flight from the world Politics of encounter and the world-ship Notes

29 15 Forming a Body in the World: Reconnecting with a Mother-Earth The fracture of the two bodies The bellies of the world and the wombs of the Earth Healing Negro bodies and ecological bodies Blowing the conch and playing the drum Notes

30 16 Interspecies Alliances: The Animal Cause and the Negro Cause The enslavement of non-human animals The social and political animalization of Black and other racialized people Being prey in the concrete jungle Racism and the animalization of women One slave-making inhabitation of the Earth Interspecies alliances against the Plantationocene Notes

31 17 A Worldly-Ecology: On the Bridge of Justice World-making, composing with pluralities Beyond gestalt ontology and creolization For doubly relational aesthetics and writing For a cosmopolitics of relation On the bridge of justice: climate justice, reparations, and decolonial restitutions Notes

32 Epilogue: World-Making in the Face of the Tempest World-making The intrusion of Ayiti Recovering the sun of Africa Notes

33 Index

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1 Foreword Figure 1 Joseph Mallord William Turner, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Ty...

2 Chapter 2 Figure 2 William Clark, “Cutting the Sugar Cane,” in Ten Views in the Islan...

3 Chapter 3Figure 3 Detail from René Lhermitte, Plan, Profile and Layout of the Ship Marie S...

4 Chapter 4Figure 4 The cyclones Katia, Irma and José, 8th September 2017, © NOAA sate...

5 Chapter 6Figure 5 Thomas Moran, Slave Hunt, Dismal Swamp , Virginia, 1861–2.Figure 6 Soil erosion in Haiti, which maroons towards the sea, 2012. Photo © Malco...

6 Chapter 8Figure 7 Banana plantation in Martinique, 2017. Photo © Malcom Ferdinand.

7 Part 3Figure 8 Anse Cafard Memorial (Mémorial de l’anse Cafard) in Martinique, sc...Figure 9 Jason deCaires Taylor, Vicissitudes , 2007, © Jason deCaires Taylor...

8 Chapter 11Figure 10 Albert Mangonès, Statue of the Unknown Maroon (Statue du Marron in...

9 Chapter 13Figure 11 Hector Charpentier, Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery (Mémorial...

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