Visions of Global Environmental Justice

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Focusing on the lived experiences of Afro-Colombians processing and resisting violence against their ecological communities, Visions of Global Environmental Justiceemploys accounts of the supernaturalnarratively and analytically to frame a contemporary struggle for environmental justice. The book applies Achille Mbembe's theorization of necropolitics to the environmental racism of the US War on Drugs in Colombia, specifically the aerial eradication of coca in the comunidades negras of the Pacific Coast. Through critical examination and deconstruction of transnational mythmaking and local oral tradition,Visions of Global Environmental Justiceillustrates that non/humans rendered expendable by US-driven drug (necro)politics are indispensable to boththe conceptualizationandthe realizationof environmental justice globally. Far from being a study singularly focused on the symptoms of environmental issues, this book creativelyguides us toward a broader understanding of environmental racism and justice across geographic scales and non/human agencies.