Unsettling Environmentalisms, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Unsettling Environmentalisms proceeds from an understanding that colonialism is an environmental crisis. This collection of essays brings together a diverse range of both Indigenous and settler scholars and activists, building on the often unacknowledged work of Indigenous writers, scholars, scientists, and activists who have long proclaimed the inextricability of environmental destruction, mass extinctions, global warming, colonialism, and settler-colonialism.

The essays consolidate the consensus established among humanists and social scientists connecting colonialism, environmental degradation, and the beginning of the era that has come to be called the Anthropocene. Ultimately, this volume recognizes that we cannot respond to our contemporary predicaments of habitat loss, ecocide, mass extinctions, rising heat, and rising waters without acknowledging and responding to centuries of colonialism-inflicted environmental precarity. This collection further argues not only that our environmental crisis is caused in substantial part by various colonialisms but that many environmentalist responses reinforce colonialist thinking and fail to integrate Indigenous perspectives. Essays by leading scholars such as Kyle Powys Whyte, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Julianne Warren, Kim Mahood, and Rachel Cushman, among others, suggest new ways of thinking and reading as well as new ways of acting.