Open Veins of Modernity - Ecological Crisis Legacy of Byzantium Pre Columbian America

This Element shows the ecological crisis due to modernity's colonial vision, of viewing Earth as natural resources and nonmodern cultures as passive or primitive. This led to the belief in intellectual maturity and infinite growth. This demands the need for decolonization of history and nature to mitigate humanity's existential threat.

List of contents

1. Parode: the leaky jar of the modern; 2. Episode one: coloniality of human others; 3. Episode two: coloniality of nature; 4. Exodus: beyond modernity; References.

Summary

This Element shows the ecological crisis due to modernity's colonial vision, of viewing Earth as natural resources and nonmodern cultures as passive or primitive. This led to the belief in intellectual maturity and infinite growth. This demands the need for decolonization of history and nature to mitigate humanity's existential threat.

Foreword

This Element presents an ecological crisis, probing modernity's coloniality of nature and nonmodern cultures.

Product details

• Authors: Eleni Kefala, Eleni (University of St Andrews) Kefala, Kefala Eleni
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009547116
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0954711-6
• No. of pages: 86
• Series: Elements in Environmental Humanities
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Social impact of environmental issues, Ecological science, the Biosphere, History of the Americas, The Americas, History of the Americas: pre-Columbian period, HISTORY / Latin America / Pre-Columbian Era