The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven

Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection

Mark W. Driscoll (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

2021
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478010166 (ISBN)

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In The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven Mark W. Driscoll examines nineteenth-century Western imperialism in Asia and the devastating effects of "climate caucasianism"-the white West's pursuit of rapacious extraction at the expense of natural environments and people of color conflated with them. Drawing on an array of primary sources in Chinese, Japanese, and French, Driscoll reframes the Opium Wars as "wars for drugs" and demonstrates that these wars to unleash narco- and human traffickers kickstarted the most important event of the Anthropocene: the military substitution of Qing China's world-leading carbon-neutral economy for an unsustainable Anglo-American capitalism powered by coal. Driscoll also reveals how subaltern actors, including outlaw societies and dispossessed samurai groups, became ecological protectors, defending their locales while driving decolonization in Japan and overthrowing a millennia of dynastic rule in China. Driscoll contends that the methods of these protectors resonate with contemporary Indigenous-led movements for environmental justice.

Mark W. Driscoll is Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is author of Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japanese Imperialism, 1895–1945, and the editor and translator of "Kannani" and "Document of Flames": Two Japanese Colonial Novels, both also published by Duke University Press.

Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. The Speed Race(r) and the Stopped, Incarce-Races xiii
1. J-hād against "Gorge-Us" White Men 47
2. Ecclesiastical Superpredators 85
Intertext I. White Dude's Burden (The Indifference That Makes a Difference) 131
3. Queer Parenting 137
4. Levelry and Revelry (Inside the Gelaohui Opium Room) 171
Intertext II. Madame Butterfly and "Negro Methods" in China 209
5. Last Samurai/First Extractive Capitalist 223
6. Blow (Opium Smoke) back: The Third War for Drugs in Sichuan 255
Conclusion. "Undermining" China and Beyond Climate Caucasianism 299
Notes 311
Bibliography 325
Index 353

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Zusatzinfo	22 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9781478010166 / 9781478010166
Zustand	Neuware