Nature Preserves (Puerto Rico) Paradise: a colonial laboratory Vieques: paradisiacal nature reserve or hell Colonial heterotopia The violence of the blank page Notes
20 8 The Masters’ Chemistry (Martinique and Guadeloupe) The toxic condition of the Plantationocene Chlordecone in the French Antilles: toxic forms of violence and domination A toxic power grab that strengthens colonial inhabitation The masters’ chemistry and the lie of an astronaut-humanity Notes
21 9 A Colonial Ecology: At the Heart of the Double Fracture Slave-making ecology: environmentalism under the condition of slavery Plantationary emancipation: an abolition of slavery on the condition of the plantation A fracture between anticolonialism and modern environmentalism The Anthropocene’s colonial oikos The Negroes of the colonial oikos The Anthropocene’s hold Notes
22 Part III The Slave Ship: Rising Up from Modernity’s Hold in Search of a World
23 10 The Slave Ship: Debarking Off-World The slave ship: the imaginary ark of the Caribbean world Debarkation politics Lost bodies The shipwrecked: off-Earth The Negro: off-world Figures of the flight from the world: rising up from the hold Notes
24 11 Maroon Ecology: Fleeing the Plantationocene Marooning the Anthropocene At the heart of modernity’s double fracture Touching Earth: Maroon matrigenesis Creole metamorphosis: recovering a self, discovering a body The Maroon’s ecology: protectors of the forests The Maroonesses Limits and virtues Notes
25 12 Rousseau, Thoreau, and Civil Marronage John Muir in Cuba: breaking the wall of environmentalism Rousseau or the Maroon walker Thoreau cut in two Thoreau, defender of the Maroons The enslaved to Black enslavement: the other people enslaved by the Plantationocene Civil marronage Civil Maroonesses and the White women against slavery A civil marronage from the Plantationocene Notes
26 13 A Decolonial Ecology: Rising Up from the Hold From the colonial fracture to the environmental fracture From the environmental fracture to the colonial fracture Unsettling the Anthropocene: the Ayiti hypothesis Decolonial ecology’s struggles: rising up from the modern hold Notes
27 Part IV A World-Ship: World-Making beyond the Double Fracture
28 14 A World-Ship: Politics of Encounter Noah’s ark and the slave ship: two wanderings of the same modernity The environmentalist return: continuing the colonial refusal of the world Maroon returns: pursuit of the infinite flight from the world Politics of encounter and the world-ship Notes
29 15 Forming a Body in the World: Reconnecting with a Mother-Earth The fracture of the two bodies The bellies of the world and the wombs of the Earth Healing Negro bodies and ecological bodies Blowing the conch and playing the drum Notes