Abstract

Daily checks into the state of the world bring unending reports of patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist violence. Social and sexualized wars against women, international and domestic wars against globalized Others, or the ongoing industrial war against the Earth - all shape current geopolitics. But many of us miss the contours of the underlying structure that holds these different expressions of violence together and ‘the conduits’ through which patriarchal-colonial-capitalist relations ignite and fuel these attacks.

In Decolonize EcoModernism! preeminent ecofeminist scholar Ariel Salleh provides a deep systems-critical understanding of these interdependent forces of ecomodernism. Decolonize EcoModernism! helps us better understand the dynamics of endemic violence perpetuated in the effort to control environmental problems through technological solutions. This book provides an illuminating framework through which we can scrutinize the intrinsic interrelationship between patriarchy-capitalism-colonization that powers the hubris of industrial solutions to industrially driven ecological decline.