Engaging important discussions about social conflict,
environmental change, and imperialism in Africa, "Different Shades
of Green" points to legacies of African environmental writing,
often neglected as a result of critical perspectives shaped by
dominant Western conceptions of nature and environmentalism.
Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework employing postcolonial
studies, political ecology, environmental history, and writing by
African environmental activists, Byron Caminero-Santangelo
emphasizes connections within African environmental literature,
highlighting how African writers have challenged unjust,
ecologically destructive forms of imperial development and resource
extraction.
"Different Shades of Green "also brings into dialogue a wide
range of African creative writing--including works by Chinua
Achebe, Ng g wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Zakes Mda,
Nuruddin Farah, Wangari Maathai, and Ken Saro-Wiwa--in order to
explore vexing questions for those involved in the struggle for
environmental justice, in the study of political ecology, and in
the environmental humanities, urging continued imaginative thinking
in effecting a more equitable, sustainŽable future in Africa."
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