The Earth Mother and the Assault of Capitalism

With climate collapse looming and chemical geo-engineering poisoning the Earth’s air and water, humanity faces a battery of lethal crises: undermined food production, ecocide, accelerated desertification and drought, industrialist pillaging of the Earth through oil drilling and mining, and many other such assaults on life itself. Ever-growing crises of unsustainability in the 21st century point to the inevitable collapse of capitalism. This book investigates these crises and proposes a reclamation of Indigenous languages as part of cultural, educational and societal decolonization. By restoring Indigenous ancestral cultural wisdom and practice towards paths of wholeness and sustainability, society can recover, and live simply so that all forms of life may live.

Julian E. Kunnie is a professor, activist researcher, and advocate for the Earth Mother and Indigenous peoples in Turtle Island (North America), Africa, and around the world spanning almost five decades. His articles have appeared in publications on Indigenous Decolonization of Social Work, the African Studies Review, Black Scholar, Journal of African American History, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of Pan African Studies, and other noted journals and publications.

Julian E. Kunnie
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages:
Bibliographic Info: ca. 55 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2024
pISBN: 978-1-4766-8390-4
eISBN: 978-1-4766-5384-6
Imprint: McFarland

“In his latest book, the prolific and exceedingly intelligent Julian Kunnie demonstrates why he is regarded as one of our leading intellectuals and thinkers.”—Gerald Horne, author of Armed Struggle?: Panthers and Communists, Black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties and Seventies