Events

Author Talk:

Malcom Ferdinand presents his new book,

"Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World"

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

5:30 - 7:00pm

Room 32-141 (map)

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.

Malcom Ferdinand is an environmental engineer from University College London and doctor in political philosophy from Université Paris Diderot. He is currently a researcher in political ecology and environmental humanities at the CNRS (IRISSO/University Paris Dauphine). At the crossroad of political philosophy, postcolonial theory and political ecology, his research focuses on the Black Atlantic and particularly the Caribbean. He has published on topics such as climate justice and the struggle against the toxic legacies of slavery and colonialism, with a specific focus on chlordecone contamination in the Outre Mer.