Black Geographies and Black Ecologies as Insurgent Ecocriticism

Black Geographies and Black Ecologies as Insurgent Ecocriticism

Black geographies and Black ecologies are epistemological frameworks that attend to the ideological, philosophical, and material portent of Black movements in dialectical, but not deterministic, relationships with the geographies and environments of Black life and struggle. This article reviews the...

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Published in:Environment and society Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 156 - 174
Main Authors: Moulton, Alex A, Salo, Inge
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Berghahn Books, Inc 01-01-2022
Subjects:
Black people
Book publishing
Capitalism
Consciousness
Ecocriticism
Ecology and history
Environmental history
Environmental justice
Epistemology
Eurocentrism
Hare, Nathan
Humanities
Insurgency
New York
Poetics
Politics
Race
Racial justice
Racism
Resistance movements
Sociopolitical factors
Traditions
United States
White supremacy
Wright, Beverly
Wynter, Sylvia
New York
United States
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Summary:Black geographies and Black ecologies are epistemological frameworks that attend to the ideological, philosophical, and material portent of Black movements in dialectical, but not deterministic, relationships with the geographies and environments of Black life and struggle. This article reviews the Black geographies and Black ecologies literature, showing the convergence of these bodies of scholarship around themes of racial, spatial, and ecological justice. The thematic, methodological, and analytical overlaps between Black geographies and Black ecologies are quite apropos for understanding the current realities faced by Black racial-spatial-ecological justice movements; for clarifying the geographies, histories, and ecologies of Black transformation, flourishing, and everyday resistance; and for explicating how global environmental crises are rooted in racial capitalism and regimes of racialization (a sociopolitical crisis).
ISSN:2150-6779
2150-6787
DOI:10.3167/ares.2022.130110