Postcolonial ecocriticism is a form of critique that is concerned with historical and continuing injustices that emerge from relations between humans and their environments. As the term postcolonial suggests, this form of critique is particularly concerned with the consequences of colonialist expansion and domination. Earlier work in this field attended to tropes of nature and ideas of place as well as the representation of nonhuman animals; this has expanded more recently to encompass work that reckons with broader concerns of social injustice, including toxicity, pollution, extraction, and waste. Postcolonial ecocriticism also provides important critique of modes of environmental thought for the ways they centre specific livelihoods and epistemologies.