The pesticide contamination of Martinique and Guadeloupe stands among the most severe environmental scandals in contemporary France. The historic use of chlordecone (Kepone) has devastated human and non-human lives alike, while accountability remains absent. Drawing on 15 years of interdisciplinary research and sustained political engagement in the case, Malcom Ferdinand presents a radical narrative that resists official technocratic framings, offering instead a poetic and political proposition for inhabiting the Earth in the ruins of modern colonization.

Language: English with simultaneous translation into Spanish.

About the speaker: Malcom Ferdinand

With the collaboration of WIELS, Bruselas.