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The pesticide contamination of the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe has become known as one of the most important environmental scandals of the current French Republic. The historic use of the chlordecone (or Kepone) in particular has caused significant damage to both human and non-human while no one has been held accountable. Based on 15 years of interdisciplinary research as well as a sustained political involvement in the case, Dr Malcom Ferdinand will present a radical narrative of that scandal, one that moves away from the technicist perspectives of the French government and many scientists. Loving ourselves the Earth: undoing the colonial inhabitation, his recently published book (Seuil 2024), tells the story of an ongoing decolonial resistance and, with a poetic gesture, offers a conceptual proposition for inhabiting the Earth and engaging the world in the ruins of modern colonization.