From Marrons to Kreyòl: Human-Animal Relations in Early Caribbean

Bulamah, Rodrigo Charafeddine

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“…These spaces included gardens and animal pens called "provision grounds" that were sites of resistance and biodiversity composed of European animals and cultivars brought by Africans and crops of indigenous origin, notably corn and cassava. Through plant and animal alliances made beyond colonial domestication forms, this autonomy experience allowed for arrangements that were the expression of new agrarian futures and whose legacy continues to resonate in Afro-America today (Bulamah, forthcoming;Castellano 2021;DeLoughrey 2011;Moore et al 2019).…”

Section: Ecolonizing the A Nthropocenementioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonizing the Anthropocene

Taddei¹,

Shiratori²,

Bulamah³

2022

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology

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The Anthropocene debate is here situated in the context of the environmental crisis. The polysemic nature and political implications of the concept are examined. The prefix Anthropos is discussed, especially in its historical connections to environmental injustice, racism, and specism. The concept of domestication is adopted as a heuristic tool to explore some of the colonial legacies that inspire contemporary ecological thinking and point to alternative ways of inhabiting the world, particularly those associated with multispecies ethnographies and Indigenous and Black diasporic ontologies. The core argument of this entry is that a productive decolonial perspective on the Anthropocene can operate as a reverse or counteranthropology of the contemporary condition, in which the present and the scientific attempts at making sense of it, through concepts such as the Anthropocene, are seen and evaluated from the fringes of the hierarchies of knowledge that structure modern science.

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Section: Ecolonizing the A Nthropocenementioning

confidence: 99%