Prakash Kashwan, Aseem Hasnain

Decolonizing Environmentalism

Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action

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Produktbeschreibung

We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering technologies, and hopefulness of youth climate activism. Decolonizing Environmentalism helps us navigate these emotions and reimagine our approach to environmental stewardship.The authors cast a critical eye on wealthy and influential environmental groups that committed to anti-racist strategies in the wake of the racial awakening of 2020. Yet, they continue to embrace false solutions like carbon markets and biodiversity offsets, which carry deeply racialized consequences. By tracing the roots of these misplaced priorities to detrimental modernity steeped in colonialism and capitalism, the authors call for transformational changes in human-nature relationships. They distil lessons from the divestment movement, which has questioned the fossil fuel industry's moral standing, and food sovereignty activists, who have mobilized global civil society to hold agribusiness corporations accountable.Amidst calls for "apocalyptic optimism," Kashwan and Hasnain offer a radical vision grounded in intersectional ecofeminism, Indigenous sovereignty, and strategies honed in the trenches of transnational environmentalism. In these extraordinary times, Decolonizing Environmentalism invites readers to embark on a transformative journey to embrace anti-racist, emancipatory, and regenerative approaches to environmentalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 662226
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350335462
• ISBN-10: 1350335460
• Artikelnr.: 68503526

Autorenporträt

Prakash Kashwan is a scholar of global environmental and climate justice, environmental commons, and co-founder of the scholar-activism collective Climate Justice Network. He teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at Brandeis University. Aseem Hasnain is a sociologist at California State University, Fresno. He is interested in the ideological dimensions of politics, and culture. Aseem grew up in Lucknow and lives in Fresno.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Unpacking Mainstream Environmentalism: Heroic and Mundane Chapter 2: Decolonizing Environmentalism: What do we mean? Why Now? Chapter 3: Planet-Hacking Environmentalism in the Anthropocene Chapter 4: Seductions of Sustainability in Contemporary Environmentalism Chapter 5: How Not to Decolonize: Instrumentalizing Indigenous Rights and Wisdom Chapter 6: Youth Climate Movements: Accomplishments, Challenges, and Transformations Chapter 7: Forging Solidarities for Emancipatory and Regenerative Environmentalisms

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Chapter 1: Unpacking Mainstream Environmentalism: Heroic and Mundane
Chapter 2: Decolonizing Environmentalism: What do we mean? Why Now? Chapter
3: Planet-Hacking Environmentalism in the Anthropocene Chapter 4:
Seductions of Sustainability in Contemporary Environmentalism Chapter 5:
How Not to Decolonize: Instrumentalizing Indigenous Rights and Wisdom
Chapter 6: Youth Climate Movements: Accomplishments, Challenges, and
Transformations Chapter 7: Forging Solidarities for Emancipatory and
Regenerative Environmentalisms

Rezensionen

Decolonizing Environmentalism dismantles the assumptions of mainstream Western environmentalism, offering a powerful critique in clear and accessible language. It goes beyond critique, however, by providing a valuable roadmap for building more inclusive and equitable environmental movements. Amitav Ghosh, author The Nutmeg's Curse (2021)