De klimaatcrisis als koloniale crisis

The climate crisis as a colonial crisis. Perspectives from African environmental history By reviewing recent works in African environmental history, this article explores the colonial roots of the Anthropocene. I argue that a historical approach is crucial to understand the current climate crisis and its planetary inequalities. This article traces colonial environmental injustices, through examples such as forestry, agriculture and hydroelectric dam schemes, to show how they are reproduced and endure into the present. The exclusionary histories of the nature-culture divide as well as the problematic effects of colonial development schemes poignantly presage the unsustainability of contemporary interventionist climate policies. In this respect, African environmental history provides unique perspectives on the Anthropocene’s unequal dynamics. Historians can play a more prominent role in contemporary debates about the climate crisis by documenting these colonial legacies and in doing so they can contribute to more just and sustainable climate policies

Anthropocene · Climate change · Colonialism · Development economics · Ecological crisis · Economic history · Economics · Environmental crisis · Environmental ethics · Environmental history · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Sustainable development · Ecology · History · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

• Methodological refinement and cartography of environmental history scholarship

  Open Access•Shuai Chen, Amir Karimi•The Holocene•2026

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