Book review: Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World

Abstract

Missing dialogue and fractures between the environmentalist and anti-colonial movements are commonly cited issues in building meaningful shared narratives and praxis across these struggles. Fragmentation between various camps of critical social theorists and activist movements have erected barriers to collective mobilisation around social and environmental justice. A broad catalogue of decolonial literature and environmental justice movements opposing extractivism and neo-colonial arrangements have provided models and strategies for ending global patterns of coloniality. Yet, there are still few meaningful links between environmentalist/ecology movements in the Global North and anti-colonial movements in both the North and South. Herein lies the fracture that Malcom Ferdinand’s Decolonial Ecology attempts to address.