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Kolonialismus und Klimakrise: Die Hinterlassenschaften und Wanderbewegungen des Kolonialismus neu überdenken
Colonialism and the Climate Crisis: Rethinking Legacies and Trajectories
von Sunil Amrith
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Details
- ISBN
- 9783926397713
- Verlag
- Verlag der Buchhandlung Klaus Bittner (Köln)
- Erschienen
- 15.07.2026
- Auflage
- 1. Auflage
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Seiten
- 57
- Einband
- Taschenbuch
- Abmessungen
- 21 x 14 cm
- Gewicht
- 130 g
- Kategorie
- Hardcover, Softcover / Politikwissenschaft
Beschreibung
This lecture examines the tangled paths that connect the history of colonialism to the climate crisis. It looks at climate inequality at the intersection of colonialism and the postcolonial response to it. It is well established in scholarship that colonial-era resource extraction was linked to the long-term commodification of nature and fossil fuel dependency that lie at the root of our current environmental catastrophes. Postcolonial leaders, in their attempt to redress economic backwardness, which was perceived as a consequence of colonialism, often enforced top-down environmental transformation, thus heightening the risks that locally vulnerable groups were already exposed to. Finally, the lecture looks at the implications of decolonization for large scale population migration and for people's access to mobility, which is central to the climate crisis today.
Über den Autor
Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University, and Professor at the Yale School of the Environment. He is also the Henry R. Luce Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. Amrith is the author of five books, most recently "The Burning Earth" (W.W. Norton and Allen Lane, 2024), selected of "book of the year" by The New Yorker and The New Statesman in 2024. It is being translated into ten languages with the German translation having appeared with C.H. Beck in 2025. Amrith is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow, and recipient of the 2022 Heineken Prize in History, a 2022 Falling Walls "Scientific Breakthrough of the Year" award, and the 2024 Fukuoka Academic Prize for distinguished contributions to the study of Asian cultures. In 2024 he was elected an International Fellow of the British Academy.