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    The nutmeg's curse : parables for a planet in crisis (2021)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    kobvindex_ZLB34781827
    Format: 336 Seiten , 22,8 cm
    ISBN: 9780226815459
    Content: Before the 18th century, every single nutmeg in the world originated around a group of small volcanic islands east of Java, known as the Banda Islands. As the nutmeg made its way across the known world, they became immensely valuable - in 16th century Europe, just a handful could buy a house. It was not long before European traders became conquerors, and the indigenous Bandanese communities - and the islands themselves - would pay a high price for access to this precious commodity. Yet the bloody fate of the Banda Islands forewarns of a threat to our present day. Amitav Ghosh argues that the nutmeg's violent trajectory from its native islands is revealing of a wider colonial mindset which justifies the exploitation of human life and the natural environment, and which dominates geopolitics to this day. Written against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, and interweaving discussions on everything from climate change, the migrant crisis, and the animist spirituality of indigenous communities around the world, The Nutmeg's Curse offers a sharp critique of Western society, and reveals the profoundly remarkable ways in which human history is shaped by non-human forces.
    Note: From the author of The great derangement , Englisch
    Language: English
    Author information: Ghosh, Amitav
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    The nutmeg's curse : parables for a planet in crisis (2021)
    Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
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    UID:
    gbv_1752842480
    Format: 339 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    ISBN: 9780226815459 , 9780226823959
    Content: "The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis frames climate change and the Anthropocene as the culmination of a history that begins with the discovery of the New World and of the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Ghosh makes the case that the political dynamics of climate change today are rooted in the centuries-old geopolitical order that was constructed by Western colonialism. This argument is set within a broader narrative about human entanglements with botanical matter-spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels-and the continuities that bind human history with these earthly materials. Ghosh also writes explicitly against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests, and international immigration debates, among other pressing issues, framing these ongoing crises in a new way by showing how the colonialist extractive mindset is directly connected to the deep inequality we see around us today"--
    Note: Bibliographie: Seite 297-325
    Additional Edition: Übersetzt als Ghosh, Amitav, 1956 - Der Fluch der Muskatnuss
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780226815466
    Language: English
    Subjects: English Studies
    RVK:
    HQ 6460
    Keywords: Kolonialismus ; Klimaänderung ; Kolonialismus ; Klimaänderung ; Ökologie ; Krise
    DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226815466.001.0001
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    Author information: Ghosh, Amitav 1956-
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