Climate Imperialism: Ecocriticism, Postcolonialism, and Global Climate Change
Global climate change threatens to kill or displace hundreds of thousands of people and will irrevocably change the lifestyles of practically everyone on the planet. However, the effect of imperialism and colonialism on climate change is a topic that has not received adequate scrutiny. Empire has be...
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| description | Global climate change threatens to kill or displace hundreds of thousands of people and will irrevocably change the lifestyles of practically everyone on the planet. However, the effect of imperialism and colonialism on climate change is a topic that has not received adequate scrutiny. Empire has been a significant factor in the rise of fossil fuels. The complicated connections between conservation and empire often make it difficult to reconcile the two disparate fields of ecocriticism and postcolonial studies. This paper will discuss how empire and imperialism have contributed to, and continue to shape, the ever-looming threat of global climate crisis, especially as it manifests in the tropics. Global climate change reinforces disparate economic, social, and racial conditions that were started, fostered, and thrived throughout the long history of colonization, inscribing climate change as a new, slow form of imperialism that is retracing the pathways that colonialism and globalism have already formed. Ultimately, it may only be by considering climate change through a postcolonial lens and utilizing indigenous resistance that the damage of this new form of climate imperialism can be undone. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5b380006a0e5433c82afaddc8b1a79882022-12-21T23:16:53ZengJames Cook UniversityeTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics1448-29402021-09-0120210.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3809Climate Imperialism: Ecocriticism, Postcolonialism, and Global Climate ChangeRachel Hartnett0University of Florida, USAGlobal climate change threatens to kill or displace hundreds of thousands of people and will irrevocably change the lifestyles of practically everyone on the planet. However, the effect of imperialism and colonialism on climate change is a topic that has not received adequate scrutiny. Empire has been a significant factor in the rise of fossil fuels. The complicated connections between conservation and empire often make it difficult to reconcile the two disparate fields of ecocriticism and postcolonial studies. This paper will discuss how empire and imperialism have contributed to, and continue to shape, the ever-looming threat of global climate crisis, especially as it manifests in the tropics. Global climate change reinforces disparate economic, social, and racial conditions that were started, fostered, and thrived throughout the long history of colonization, inscribing climate change as a new, slow form of imperialism that is retracing the pathways that colonialism and globalism have already formed. Ultimately, it may only be by considering climate change through a postcolonial lens and utilizing indigenous resistance that the damage of this new form of climate imperialism can be undone.https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3809climate changeimperialismcolonialismecocriticismpostcolonialismindigenous resistance |
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| title | Climate Imperialism: Ecocriticism, Postcolonialism, and Global Climate Change |
| title_full | Climate Imperialism: Ecocriticism, Postcolonialism, and Global Climate Change |
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| title_short | Climate Imperialism: Ecocriticism, Postcolonialism, and Global Climate Change |
| title_sort | climate imperialism ecocriticism postcolonialism and global climate change |
| topic | climate change imperialism colonialism ecocriticism postcolonialism indigenous resistance |
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