"Decolonising Ecology": Malcom Ferdinand in conversation with Romy Opperman

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The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth’s ecosystems and its human and non-human communities and, on the other, a colonial fracture instilled by Western colonization and imperialism that resulted in racial slavery and the domination of indigenous peoples and women in particular.
In this conversation with Romy Opperman, philosopher and political ecologist Malcom Ferdinand discusses his vision of a decolonial ecology that holds protecting the environment together with the political struggles against (post)colonial domination, structural racism, and misogynistic practices. This wide-ranging conversation also critiques the Anthropocene discourse, raises questions about the relationship between ontology and ethics, and much more!
Malcom Ferdinand is an environmental engineer from University College London and doctor in political philosophy from Université Paris Diderot. He is now a researcher at the CNRS (IRISSO/University Paris Dauphine). At the crossroad of political philosophy, postcolonial theory and political ecology, his research explores the relations between current ecological crises and the colonial history of modernity. His first book, "A Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World", was published recently in English by Polity.
Romy Opperman is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. Her research bridges Africana, continental, decolonial, environmental, and feminist philosophy to foreground issues of racism and colonialism for environmental ethics and justice. She is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled "Africana Ecopolitics: Radical Philosophies of Ecological Freedom".