Decolonize Futures Vol. 2 "Decolonization and the Environmental Crisis"『脱植民地化と環境危機』

2023 was the hottest year on record. It is no longer surprising to see the worsening situation of climate change. The environmental crisis extends beyond climate change. Human activities have caused the extinction of many species with an unprecedented speed, which is now called “sixth mass extinction.” Behind the history of the environmental crisis, there are culture, politics, and economy that have justified and progressed the environmental destruction. Through colonialism, people and the nature in the colonized countries and regions are turned into an exploitable “thing” or “resource,” and such discourse justified the historical destruction of the ecosystem worldwide. In Decolonize Futures Vol. 2 “Decolonization and the Environmental Crisis,” we organized interviews with scholars who criticize the colonialism lying beneath the environmental crisis and explore the possibility of alternative futures. With Yoshihiro Nakano (Rikkyo University) and Eiko Honda (Aarhus University), we will