Malcom Ferdinand
Fort-de-France, Martinique
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A researcher at the CNRS, attached to IRISSO at Université Paris-Dauphine, Malcom Ferdinand is an environmental engineer by training and holds a doctorate in political philosophy. Born in Martinique, he connects two histories usually kept apart: that of colonisation and that of the destruction of living environments. His book Une écologie décoloniale (Seuil, 2019) starts from the Caribbean to propose a narrative in which environmental justice and the legacies of slavery are thought together, wit
Rising Voices · écologie décoloniale · justice environnementale · philosophie politique · recherche · essai · héritages coloniaux · pollution des sols · pensée caribéenne
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