Scott Burnett is Assistant Professor of African Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, USA and a research affiliate at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Scott Burnett’s highly readable and powerful new book paves the way for further integrating critical discourse studies and political ecology. The robust conversations he envisages between these fields are not only vital to understanding our harrowing planetary socio-ecological condition but in fact necessary to kindle what he calls ‘critical hope’.

• List of Figures List of Tables Introduction: Intersectionality and Ecological Crisis 1. Critique and Discourses of the Earth 2. Ecointersectional Discourse Analysis 3. Green Capitalism and the Conscientious Consumer 4. ‘Barbarian Hordes’: Overpopulation and the Climate Migrant 5. Colonial Conservation: Green Violence at the Wild Frontier6. Race, Nature, Nation: Econationalism Conclusion: Critique, Despair, and Critical Hope ReferencesIndex

Scott Burnett is Assistant Professor of African Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, USA and a research affiliate at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Scott Burnett’s highly readable and powerful new book paves the way for further integrating critical discourse studies and political ecology. The robust conversations he envisages between these fields are not only vital to understanding our harrowing planetary socio-ecological condition but in fact necessary to kindle what he calls ‘critical hope’.

• List of Figures List of Tables Introduction: Intersectionality and Ecological Crisis 1. Critique and Discourses of the Earth 2. Ecointersectional Discourse Analysis 3. Green Capitalism and the Conscientious Consumer 4. ‘Barbarian Hordes’: Overpopulation and the Climate Migrant 5. Colonial Conservation: Green Violence at the Wild Frontier6. Race, Nature, Nation: Econationalism Conclusion: Critique, Despair, and Critical Hope ReferencesIndex

Scott Burnett is Assistant Professor of African Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, USA and a research affiliate at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Scott Burnett’s highly readable and powerful new book paves the way for further integrating critical discourse studies and political ecology. The robust conversations he envisages between these fields are not only vital to understanding our harrowing planetary socio-ecological condition but in fact necessary to kindle what he calls ‘critical hope’.

• List of Figures List of Tables Introduction: Intersectionality and Ecological Crisis 1. Critique and Discourses of the Earth 2. Ecointersectional Discourse Analysis 3. Green Capitalism and the Conscientious Consumer 4. ‘Barbarian Hordes’: Overpopulation and the Climate Migrant 5. Colonial Conservation: Green Violence at the Wild Frontier6. Race, Nature, Nation: Econationalism Conclusion: Critique, Despair, and Critical Hope ReferencesIndex