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DeColonize EcoModernism! In the twenty-first 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; but today, the theft is rationalized by ecomodernist policy. This book enters into that Androcene – its climate politics and nuclear risks, mining and the gene trade, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digital coloniality. It spells out the social and ecological contradictions set in motion by contemporary neocolonialism. The patriarchal-colonial- capitalist imperium and sometimes even environmental activists themselves advocate Green New Deals, Earth Governance, Sustainable Development Goals and Smart Futures. Meanwhile, the word from decolonial thinkers like Arturo Escobar in Colombia and Tyson Yunkaporta in Apalech country, or feminist technology critics like Vandana Shiva in India and Shoshana Zuboff in the United States, is that the dispossession of First Nation peoples’ livelihoods is not repaired by giving them access to lifestyle consumerism. Worldwide social movement activists readily see through the 1/0 imaginary and its charade of Earth Summits. Youth, especially, is standing up to the ruling class and its extinction trajectory. So too, those who are ecologically aware refuse the fashionable posthumanist ideology that circulates in high-tech quarters. Beyond ‘exchange value’, the Others of the Androcene are building a bioregional future, respectful of indigenous skills; they want food sovereign economies, protective of nature’s ‘metabolic value’. These self-governing models include buen vivir, ecovillages, swaraj and commoning.Table of Contents (Vol 1) Preface to the Trilogy 1. Resisting Extinction: Youth join the dots Author Index This book is the first of 3 volumes named -
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The Androcene and Its Others is a trilogy that argues for treating the patriarchal- colonial-capitalist system as a single political entity. This invites a shared strategy of resistance among feminist, decolonial, socialist and ecological movements. In examining how workers, women and indigenous peoples are each manipulated by a culture of systemic dualisms, the books delve into the deep structure of political ecology. [Publisher: Bloomsbury, London 2025.]
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© Ariel Salleh.