The Environmental Legacy of European Expansion and Colonialism
Three Controversies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12988769 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ravi Rajan (0000-0002-6359-8500, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 482-508 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1973-3739 • E-ISSN: 2053-7352 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3197/ge.2017.100208 |
| OpenAlex | W2753312621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Recent scholarship on the environmental impacts of European expansion has witnessed significant theoretical discordance. The debate, largely between those who draw upon Foucauldian analysis, postcolonial studies, and the cultural studies of science, on the one hand, and those informed by literatures in world history, intellectual history, economic history, and the history of science, technology and medicine; on the other, is relevant not just to the environmental history, but to our understanding of European colonialism more broadly. Yet, there has as yet been no systematic attempt to robustly identify the issues at stake, and debate them openly. The purpose of this essay is to address this gap. It addresses theoretical essays by anthropologist K. Sivaramakrishnan and others, and focuses on three central questions over which historians disagree
Colonialism · Economic history · Environmental ethics · Environmental history · Epistemology · History of science · Intellectual history · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy · Water Governance and Infrastructure
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |