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OverviewIn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark W. DriscollPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9781478010166ISBN 10: 1478010169 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 08 January 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface 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 353ReviewsMark Driscoll's The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven is an ambitious and original study of Japanese and Chinese resistance to Euro-American imperialism. Beyond his compelling focus on race and racism-which rarely get the explicit attention they deserve in East Asian studies-Driscoll turns to Marxism, postcolonial theory, and ecocriticism to analyze global histories of extractive capitalism and drug production in this wide-ranging and thrilling analysis. There is no other book like this! -- Teemu Ruskola, author of * Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law * Mark Driscoll dazzlingly argues that at the origin of the Anthropocene lies the predatory behavior of European colonialism in East Asia-what he daringly terms climate caucasianism , a historically unprecedented assemblage of extraction, coloniality, ecological devastation, commerce, and war. Driscoll's exquisite and brilliant scholarship demonstrates a simultaneous mastery of Chinese and Japanese languages, cultures, and histories. The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven should be of immediate interest to students in all those fields wishing to understand the multiple entanglements of imperialism, colonialism, ontology, and resistance that underlie the complex assemblage called climate change. -- Arturo Escobar, author of * Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible * Mark W. Driscoll's The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven is an ambitious and original study of Japanese and Chinese resistance to Euro-American imperialism. Beyond his compelling focus on race and racism-which rarely get the explicit attention they deserve in East Asian studies-Driscoll turns to Marxism, postcolonial theory, and ecocriticism to analyze global histories of extractive capitalism and drug production in this wide-ranging and thrilling analysis. There is no other book like this! -- Teemu Ruskola, author of * Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law * Mark W. Driscoll dazzlingly argues that at the origin of the Anthropocene lies the predatory behavior of European colonialism in East Asia-what he daringly terms climate caucasianism , a historically unprecedented assemblage of extraction, coloniality, ecological devastation, commerce, and war. Driscoll's exquisite and brilliant scholarship demonstrates a simultaneous mastery of Chinese and Japanese languages, cultures, and histories. The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven should be of immediate interest to students in all those fields wishing to understand the multiple entanglements of imperialism, colonialism, ontology, and resistance that underlie the complex assemblage called climate change. -- Arturo Escobar, author of * Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible * Author InformationMark 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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