Visions of Global Environmental Justice : Comunidades Negras and the War on Drugs in Colombia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huezo, Alexander.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Focusing on the lived experiences of Afro-Colombians processing and resisting violence against their ecological communities, Visions of Global Environmental Justice employs accounts of the supernatural narratively and analytically to frame a contemporary struggle for environmental justice. The book applies Achille Mbembe's theorization of necropolitics to the environmental racism of the US War on Drugs in Colombia, specifically the aerial eradication of coca in the comunidades negras of the Pacific Coast. Through critical examination and deconstruction of transnational mythmaking and local oral tradition, Visions of Global Environmental Justice illustrates that non/humans rendered expendable by US-driven drug (necro)politics are indispensable to both the conceptualization and the realization of environmental justice globally. Far from being a study singularly focused on the symptoms of environmental issues, this book creatively guides us toward a broader understanding of environmental racism and justice across geographic scales and non/human agencies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Tricksters, Seductresses, and Eco-Monsters

2. Devils, Witches, and Narco-Monsters

3. Killer Plants and the Two-Headed Monster

4. Territory, Natural Rights, and Global Environmental Justice

5. Envisioning Global Environmental Justice Studies

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

9780520387942

0520387945