DeColonize EcoModernism!

A Reading, Book Launch, and Discussion with author Ariel Salleh

Tim Hollo, The Green Institute, Sydney

Lau Kin Chi, Global University for Sustainability, Hong Kong

Shrishtee Bajpai, Kalpavriksh, Pune

Chair, James Goodman, Social Sciences, UTS, Sydney

In-person: ResHub, UTS Broadway, Sydney (Bld 02, Lev 05, Rm 250)
Online: Zoom 863 764 5831, Passcode 345711
Refreshments at the Venue.

In the 21st century, the old colonial attitude of terra nullius, meaning a vacant place, free for the taking, still lurks behind the global economic expropriation of peoples' lands and bodies; but today, the theft is rationalised internationally by ecomodernist policy. This book enters into that Androcene; its climate politics and nuclear risks, mining and the gene trade, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digitalised coloniality.

Grounded in an embodied materialist sociology of knowledge, DeColonize EcoModernism! spells out the social and ecological contradictions of this polycrisis and points to newly emergent forms of biocultural politics being advanced by postcolonial communities. The book is Vol 1 of a trilogy with Bloomsbury Press.

Ariel Salleh is Visiting Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at the Federal University of Brazil, Bahia; formerly Distinguished Scholar at Queen Mary University of London and Senior Fellow in Post-Growth Societies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena: www.arielsalleh.info.

Hosted by the UTS Climate, Environment and Society Research Centre (C-SERC)

Info: james.goodman@uts.edu.au