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The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven
- Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection
Engelsk Paperback
The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven
- Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection
Engelsk Paperback

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In The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven Mark W. Driscoll examines nineteenth-century Western imperialism in Asia and the devastating effects of "climate caucasianism"-the white West's pursuit of rapacious extraction at the expense of natural environments and people of color conflated with them. Drawing on an array of primary sources in Chinese, Japanese, and French, Driscoll reframes the Opium Wars as "wars for drugs" and demonstrates that these wars to unleash narco- and human traffickers kickstarted the most important event of the Anthropocene: the military substitution of Qing China's world-leading carbon-neutral economy for an unsustainable Anglo-American capitalism powered by coal. Driscoll also reveals how subaltern actors, including outlaw societies and dispossessed samurai groups, became ecological protectors, defending their locales while driving decolonization in Japan and overthrowing a millennia of dynastic rule in China. Driscoll contends that the methods of these protectors resonate with contemporary Indigenous-led movements for environmental justice.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478011217
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478011211
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
8 jan 2021
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
8 jan 2021
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge