Prakash Kashwan, "Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

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Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action (Bloomsbury, 2024) helps

us reimagine our approach to environmental stewardship critically

interrogating the problems associated with existing legacies of

environmentalism and how we imagine other ways to addressing the multiple planetary crises.

The

authors cast a critical eye on wealthy and influential environmental

groups that committed to anti-racist strategies in the wake of the

racial awakening of 2020. Yet, they continue to embrace false solutions

like carbon markets and biodiversity offsets, which carry deeply

racialized consequences. By tracing the roots of these misplaced

priorities to detrimental modernity steeped in colonialism and