Different Shades of Green: African Literature, Environmental Justice, and Political Ecology

by Byron Caminero-Santangelo

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813936063
• ISBN13: 9780813936062
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 9.8"