colonial inhabitation and the Maroon fracture of the world
World-making to reforest the Earth
Notes
19 7 Paradise or Hell in the Nature Preserves (Puerto Rico) Paradise: a colonial laboratory Vieques: paradisiacal nature reserve or hell Colonial heterotopia The violence of the blank page Notes
20 8 The Masters’ Chemistry (Martinique and Guadeloupe) The toxic condition of the Plantationocene Chlordecone in the French Antilles: toxic forms of violence and domination A toxic power grab that strengthens colonial inhabitation The masters’ chemistry and the lie of an astronaut-humanity Notes
21 9 A Colonial Ecology: At the Heart of the Double Fracture Slave-making ecology: environmentalism under the condition of slavery Plantationary emancipation: an abolition of slavery on the condition of the plantation A fracture between anticolonialism and modern environmentalism The Anthropocene’s colonial oikos The Negroes of the colonial oikos The Anthropocene’s hold Notes
22 Part III The Slave Ship: Rising Up from Modernity’s Hold in Search of a World
23 10 The Slave Ship: Debarking Off-World The slave ship: the imaginary ark of the Caribbean world Debarkation politics Lost bodies The shipwrecked: off-Earth The Negro: off-world Figures of the flight from the world: rising up from the hold Notes
24 11 Maroon Ecology: Fleeing the Plantationocene Marooning the Anthropocene At the heart of modernity’s double fracture Touching Earth: Maroon matrigenesis Creole metamorphosis: recovering a self, discovering a body The Maroon’s ecology: protectors of the forests The Maroonesses Limits and virtues Notes
25 12 Rousseau, Thoreau, and Civil Marronage John Muir in Cuba: breaking the wall of environmentalism Rousseau or the Maroon walker Thoreau cut in two Thoreau, defender of the Maroons The enslaved to Black enslavement: the other people enslaved by the Plantationocene Civil marronage Civil Maroonesses and the White women against slavery A civil marronage from the Plantationocene Notes
26 13 A Decolonial Ecology: Rising Up from the Hold From the colonial fracture to the environmental fracture From the environmental fracture to the colonial fracture Unsettling the Anthropocene: the Ayiti hypothesis Decolonial ecology’s struggles: rising up from the modern hold Notes
27 Part IV A World-Ship: World-Making beyond the Double Fracture
28 14 A World-Ship: Politics of Encounter Noah’s ark and the slave ship: two wanderings of the same modernity The environmentalist return: continuing the colonial refusal of the world Maroon returns: pursuit of the infinite flight from the world Politics of encounter and the world-ship Notes
29 15 Forming a Body in the World: Reconnecting with a Mother-Earth
