Postcolonial indifference to environment and American ecological parochialism share one center-periphery root

Evidence

To reject an add-on solution to the challenges of diversity is to refuse a vision of environmentalism as invented at the center and exported to (or imposed upon) the periphery. Such center-periphery thinking has been, historically, both a source of postcolonialists’ pervasive indifference to environmentalism and, conversely, a source of the debilitating strain of superpower parochialism that lingers even now among many American ecocritics and writers. Just as subaltern studies embarked on a project of provincializing the West, so too we need to persist in provincializing American environmentalism if we are to regenerate and diversify the field. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 793

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the provincializing-the-West move the reader knows from subaltern studies discourse centered on the polyad’s land/place and colonial strands. — connects to: Bioregional spiritual geography forgets the transnational harms America causes — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 730; Eco-ethical consciousness requires analyzing cultural roots of ecological harm — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 228

Broader Connections

• Eco-ethical consciousness requires analyzing cultural roots of ecological harm #expands (0.72) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 228