DeColonize EcoModernism!

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Ariel Salleh (Visiting Professor, Culture, Philosophy & Environment, Nelson Mandela University and Research Associate in Political Economy, Federal University of Bahia , Brazil)

DeColonize EcoModernism!

Ariel Salleh (Visiting Professor, Culture, Philosophy & Environment, Nelson Mandela University and Research Associate in Political Economy, Federal University of Bahia , Brazil)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
20 February 2025

Social & political philosophy; Feminism & feminist theory; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Environmentalist thought & ideology

In the 21st century, the old colonial attitude of terra nullius, meaning a vacant place free for the taking, still lurks behind the global economic expropriation of peoples’ lands and bodies. Today, that theft is rationalised internationally by ecomodernist policy. This book engages with the patriarchal-colonial-capitalist mindset of the contemporary Androcene and its threats to Life-on-Earth, including global warming and nuclear risks, mining and the gene trade, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digital coloniality.

Ariel Salleh spells out the social and ecological contradictions set in motion by neocolonialism. Inspired by decolonial thinkers from Arturo Escobar to Tyson Yunkaporta, and critics of technology like Vandana Shiva and Shoshana Zuboff, she argues that dispossession of First Nation peoples’ livelihoods is not healed by consumerism in the name of ‘development’. Breaking with ecomodernist policy such as ‘the tech fix’ of mainstream environmentalists, Salleh contests the patriarchal-colonial-capitalist imperium and its advocacy of Green New Deals, Earth Governance, Sustainable Development Goals, and Smart Futures.

Worldwide many decolonial activists see through the zero-sum imagination and its Earth Summits. Youth too, is defying the capitalist ruling class extinction trajectory, and some even challenge the fashionable post-human ideology circulating in high-tech quarters. Beyond ‘exchange value’, these Others of the Androcene are calling for self-governing bioregional futures, respectful of indigenous skills; they want local food sovereign economies, which meet people’s needs while protecting nature’s ‘metabolic value’.

Spelling out the biopolitical violence of digitalization and genetic engineering, this book traces two decades of creative defiance by global peoples’ movements against the contradictions of ecomodernist development and its ongoing imposition by nation states and international agencies.

By: Ariel Salleh (Visiting Professor Culture Philosophy & Environment Nelson Mandela University and Research Associate in Political Economy Federal University of Bahia Brazil)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781474277617
ISBN 10: 1474277616
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 20 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword 1. Resisting Extinction - Youth Joins the Dots The Anthropocene - The Androscene - 1/0 logic - Entangled Frames 2. Terra Nullius - Consuming Lands and Bodies Extractivism - Exterminism - Biocolonialism - The Master Law 3. The 2030 Agenda - UN Sustainable Development Goals Fixing Poverty - Redesign Initiative - Finance - Old Episteme - False Consensus - Another Way 4. Global Synergies - Livelihoods or Lifestyles? The Activist - The Teacher 5. Nuclear Risks - Voices for Life-on-Earth Denialism - Women's Collectives - For Life-on-Earth - Enough Looting! - Postscript 6. Green New Deals - for Globalisation Lite UK & UNEP - Transatlantic - Australia - US Democrats - EU & DiEM25 - DSA-USA - Othered-deals 7. Buen Vivir - Ecomodernist v Andean Strategy Strategy I - Embodying Debt - Strategy II - Back to Dependency - Metabolic Value - Eco-Sufficiency 8. Climate Science - and Water - Coming to our Senses Carbon Fetishism - Methodological Forcing - Scale v Responsibility - People's Science Conclusion 9. The Gene Trade - Organised Irresponsibility Measurable Units - Unpredictable Risk - Matters Outstanding - Co-existence - Synthetic Biology - Andro ethics 10. Another Future is Possible! - Holding Ground Others - Hierarchy - Stakeholders - Coloniality - Bio-civilisation - Hope 11. Earth Governance - Uncertainty Principle Revisited Conceptual Fit - Multi-scalar - Ecomodernism - Boundaries - Complexity - Steering Laissez-faire - Validity 12. Food Sovereignty - Another Way in China Internal Colonies - Benefit-sharing? - Racist Science - Meta-industrial Labour 13. The Smart ResSet - Digitised Citizens The Fourth IR - Internet of Things - Captured Agencies - Climate Impacts - Colonising Space 14. The Androscene - Structures of Feeling Nonidentity - Anthro or Andro - Pre-Oedipal dynamic - Fathers of Affect - Posthuman Actants - Hyper-objects 15. Testing Coloniality - Everyday Contradictions Modernity - Data Sovereignty - Double-binds - Decoupling? - Convivial Degrowth 16. Re-Worlding - A Prefigurative Commons Local is Global - Good Fit with Country

Ariel Salleh is Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa; former Senior Fellow in Post-Growth Societies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany and Research Associate in Political Economy, University of Sydney, Australia. She is author and editor of many books including Ecofeminism as Politics (ZED, 2017).

Reviews for DeColonize EcoModernism!

In a time of multiple systemic crises, DeColonize EcoModernism! unpacks the extraction, exploitation, and consumption that fuel capital accumulation at great cost to the living Earth and its peoples. Ariel Salleh’s book will enrich intergenerational learning and guide the transversal movement politics so urgently needed as representative democracies flounder. * Jackie Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, USA, and former Editor, Journal of World-Systems Research * Pushing the boundaries of political ecology, DeColonize EcoModernism! is refreshingly transdisciplinary, often astonishing in its scope across subjects, theories, sectors, and the reweaving of academic critique on an activist loom. * Ashish Kothari, Environmentalist, foundation member of Kalpavrish, India, and Global Tapestry of Alternatives *