Nsah Mala (born Kenneth Nsah), PhD, is Researcher and Hub Coordinator for UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition at the University of Cologne. He is also affiliated with the School of International Futures (SOIF) and the Universities of Lancaster, Nottingham, and Lille. Nicki Hitchcott is Professor of French and African Studies at the University of St Andrews.

‘By bringing together ecotextual scholarship and ecological urgency, Mala and Hitchcott have produced an essential resource for anyone interested in intersections of postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, and francophone cultural production in the Global South. The volume will undoubtedly inspire further research while serving as a model for engaged, politically conscious criticism in an age of environmental precarity.’ Adrienne Angelo, French Studies

• IntroductionNsah Mala and Nicki HitchcottChapter 1. Afterlives of a Poisoning: ‘Living-with’ Pesticides in Martinique and GuadeloupeRichard WattsChapter 2. Imaginary Futures with Sargassum: Towards an Aesthetics of Habitability from the Caribbean?Jennifer Boum MakeChapter 3. Decolonial Visual Narratives of a Nuclear FrancosphereArmelle Blin-RollandChapter 4. Océanitude and the Francophone Blue Humanities: Thinking with and from the Ocean/icGiulia ChampionChapter 5. Engineering Nature: Extractivism, Risk, and Environmental Crisis in Ahmed Tazi’s Du pétrole et des outardesEdwige Tamalet TalbayevChapter 6. Fissuring the Surface: Glissant’s Poetics of the Concrete and BétonisationEmily EyestoneChapter 7. ‘Cette terre volcanique me ressemble’: Resisting the Colonial Imaginary in Ananda Devi’s PagliAmanda VredenburghChapter 8. Silencing the Forest: Development, Urbanization, and Globalization in In Koli Jean Bofane’s Congo Inc.Isaac JoslinChapter 9. Vegetal Discourses in Contemporary Francophone Cameroonian PoetryEunice NgongkumChapter 10. Relaying Nature’s Voice: Non-Human Subjectivity and Agency in Francophone African FictionEtienne-Marie LassiChapter 11. A Too Human Virus’: Véronique Tadjo’s En compagnie des hommes (2017) and Jean-Luc Nancy’s Un trop humain virus (2020), Documenting the Planet’s Decadent DemiseValérie K. OrlandoChapter 12. Radical Publishing and Ecological Consciousness in the Postcolony: the Story and Creative Legacy of French Guiana’s Le Pou d’Agouti CollectiveSophie FuggleChapter 13. ‘I Love Her Like My Family’: Cinema, Conservation, CambodiaLeslie Barnes, Chea Sopheap, Penny Edwards, Khon Raksa and Yim SothearyBibliography of Works CitedList of ContributorsIndex

Nsah Mala (born Kenneth Nsah), PhD, is Researcher and Hub Coordinator for UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition at the University of Cologne. He is also affiliated with the School of International Futures (SOIF) and the Universities of Lancaster, Nottingham, and Lille. Nicki Hitchcott is Professor of French and African Studies at the University of St Andrews.

‘By bringing together ecotextual scholarship and ecological urgency, Mala and Hitchcott have produced an essential resource for anyone interested in intersections of postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, and francophone cultural production in the Global South. The volume will undoubtedly inspire further research while serving as a model for engaged, politically conscious criticism in an age of environmental precarity.’ Adrienne Angelo, French Studies

• IntroductionNsah Mala and Nicki HitchcottChapter 1. Afterlives of a Poisoning: ‘Living-with’ Pesticides in Martinique and GuadeloupeRichard WattsChapter 2. Imaginary Futures with Sargassum: Towards an Aesthetics of Habitability from the Caribbean?Jennifer Boum MakeChapter 3. Decolonial Visual Narratives of a Nuclear FrancosphereArmelle Blin-RollandChapter 4. Océanitude and the Francophone Blue Humanities: Thinking with and from the Ocean/icGiulia ChampionChapter 5. Engineering Nature: Extractivism, Risk, and Environmental Crisis in Ahmed Tazi’s Du pétrole et des outardesEdwige Tamalet TalbayevChapter 6. Fissuring the Surface: Glissant’s Poetics of the Concrete and BétonisationEmily EyestoneChapter 7. ‘Cette terre volcanique me ressemble’: Resisting the Colonial Imaginary in Ananda Devi’s PagliAmanda VredenburghChapter 8. Silencing the Forest: Development, Urbanization, and Globalization in In Koli Jean Bofane’s Congo Inc.Isaac JoslinChapter 9. Vegetal Discourses in Contemporary Francophone Cameroonian PoetryEunice NgongkumChapter 10. Relaying Nature’s Voice: Non-Human Subjectivity and Agency in Francophone African FictionEtienne-Marie LassiChapter 11. A Too Human Virus’: Véronique Tadjo’s En compagnie des hommes (2017) and Jean-Luc Nancy’s Un trop humain virus (2020), Documenting the Planet’s Decadent DemiseValérie K. OrlandoChapter 12. Radical Publishing and Ecological Consciousness in the Postcolony: the Story and Creative Legacy of French Guiana’s Le Pou d’Agouti CollectiveSophie FuggleChapter 13. ‘I Love Her Like My Family’: Cinema, Conservation, CambodiaLeslie Barnes, Chea Sopheap, Penny Edwards, Khon Raksa and Yim SothearyBibliography of Works CitedList of ContributorsIndex

Nsah Mala (born Kenneth Nsah), PhD, is Researcher and Hub Coordinator for UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition at the University of Cologne. He is also affiliated with the School of International Futures (SOIF) and the Universities of Lancaster, Nottingham, and Lille. Nicki Hitchcott is Professor of French and African Studies at the University of St Andrews.

‘By bringing together ecotextual scholarship and ecological urgency, Mala and Hitchcott have produced an essential resource for anyone interested in intersections of postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, and francophone cultural production in the Global South. The volume will undoubtedly inspire further research while serving as a model for engaged, politically conscious criticism in an age of environmental precarity.’ Adrienne Angelo, French Studies

• IntroductionNsah Mala and Nicki HitchcottChapter 1. Afterlives of a Poisoning: ‘Living-with’ Pesticides in Martinique and GuadeloupeRichard WattsChapter 2. Imaginary Futures with Sargassum: Towards an Aesthetics of Habitability from the Caribbean?Jennifer Boum MakeChapter 3. Decolonial Visual Narratives of a Nuclear FrancosphereArmelle Blin-RollandChapter 4. Océanitude and the Francophone Blue Humanities: Thinking with and from the Ocean/icGiulia ChampionChapter 5. Engineering Nature: Extractivism, Risk, and Environmental Crisis in Ahmed Tazi’s Du pétrole et des outardesEdwige Tamalet TalbayevChapter 6. Fissuring the Surface: Glissant’s Poetics of the Concrete and BétonisationEmily EyestoneChapter 7. ‘Cette terre volcanique me ressemble’: Resisting the Colonial Imaginary in Ananda Devi’s PagliAmanda VredenburghChapter 8. Silencing the Forest: Development, Urbanization, and Globalization in In Koli Jean Bofane’s Congo Inc.Isaac JoslinChapter 9. Vegetal Discourses in Contemporary Francophone Cameroonian PoetryEunice NgongkumChapter 10. Relaying Nature’s Voice: Non-Human Subjectivity and Agency in Francophone African FictionEtienne-Marie LassiChapter 11. A Too Human Virus’: Véronique Tadjo’s En compagnie des hommes (2017) and Jean-Luc Nancy’s Un trop humain virus (2020), Documenting the Planet’s Decadent DemiseValérie K. OrlandoChapter 12. Radical Publishing and Ecological Consciousness in the Postcolony: the Story and Creative Legacy of French Guiana’s Le Pou d’Agouti CollectiveSophie FuggleChapter 13. ‘I Love Her Like My Family’: Cinema, Conservation, CambodiaLeslie Barnes, Chea Sopheap, Penny Edwards, Khon Raksa and Yim SothearyBibliography of Works CitedList of ContributorsIndex