Decolonizing environmentalism : alternative visions and practices for environmental action
Description
Prakash KASHWAN and Aseem HASNAIN. Decolonizing environmentalism : alternative visions and practices for environmental action. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Online resource, e-book.
Decolonizing Environmentalism makes visible the simplifications and erasures of mainstream environmental movements, while reimagining our collective commitment to environmental stewardship in a way that builds on the knowledge and praxis of indigenous people, racial minorities, and rural communities. The authors deconstruct popular ideas, such as 'green consumption' and 'sustainable development' to show how these concepts rest on misleading assumptions, which are based on colonial conceptualizations of conquering nature and European Modernity's view of there being a fundamental separation between nature and society.
Decolonizing Environmentalism makes visible the simplifications and erasures of mainstream environmental movements, while reimagining our collective commitment to environmental stewardship in a way that builds on the knowledge and praxis of indigenous people, racial minorities, and rural communities. The authors deconstruct popular ideas, such as 'green consumption' and 'sustainable development' to show how these concepts rest on misleading assumptions, which are based on colonial conceptualizations of conquering nature and European Modernity's view of there being a fundamental separation between nature and society.