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E-book Empire and Environment : Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific

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How can we begin to chronicle the ecological ruination of the Pacific and Transpacific? What radiates outward to reveal the extent of the catastrophe? The editors and authors of Empire and Environment offer profound analyt-ics, poetics, and tools toward understanding the historical and contemporary dynamics of the relationship between capitalism, empire, and our planet in crisis. A geography that is both land and sea, in perpetual ruin and repair, the Transpacific connects the Pacific, the world’s largest ocean, to Indige-nous territories. It also links the Americas to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, including Hawai?i, Guam, the Philippines, and Easter Island or Rapa Nui. It is a space of Afro-diasporic memory, as the work of Arturo Escobar with African-descended communities in the northwest Pacific coast of South America (chiefly Colombia) remembers, lest we forget.1The Pacific Ocean was the route of Australian and Spanish conquest and encounter, especially during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Colonial ships that brought genocidal and extractive ruination to Indige-nous worlds and the environs. The authors of this volume place emphasis on the Pacific as a theater of war after World War II, during the rise of the U.S. empire. And, we might add, the Pacific Ocean is not a garbage patch. It biodynamically devours and expels these memories of war, these hauntings and traces of the colonial/imperial divide. Through these enlightening chap-ters, we are better able to account for the imprint of transpacific colonial and imperial militarism. Its deep, violent, and continuous imprint. For how this all shows up in the land and in bodies, in the human and more than human sites of ruination that will take thousands of lifetimes to dissipate. This is more lifetimes than we might have in front of us or behind us. The Rapa Nui remember. Histories connected to the Polynesian archipel-ago and now tied to their Chilean colonizer. Their island territories ruined by the imposition of sheep monoculture. Unlike a Western linear time-scape, the past lies in front and the future is found over the shoulder. In the current predicament of acute and intensifying climate and environmental catastro-phe, how do we also look back as much as we look forward? The “colonial Anthropocene” is a term that is meant not to endlessly proliferate concepts but to modify and specify. It references the more than five-hundred-year period of “human”-led environmental catastrophe that emerges from colo-niality. The disaster that comes from asymmetrical power relations and racial extractive practices. Marking the something that is often missing. Marking the fact that we can measure environmental impact through ice cores that correlate with the rise of global capitalism. Marking that it is racialized and Indigenous spaces that are continually immiserated by colonial environmen-tal impact.

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Judul Seri

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325.3 CAS e

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USA : University of Michigan Press., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

323 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780472902996

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325.3

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text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Colonization

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