Time, Climate Change, Global Racial Capitalism and Decolonial Planetary Ecologies by Agathangelou, Anna M.; Killian, Kyle D.;

Short description:

This book probes the interconnections of time and ecology in order to spark our imagination and re-think a planetary, and ecology, otherwise.

Long description:

This book probes the interconnections of time and ecology in order to spark our imagination and inspire us to re-think the planetary, ecology, and otherwise. It presents debates that interrogate and elucidate the anxieties of the known and the unknown of this world and the planetary beyond, sifting through temporal accounts of the Anthropocene, human beings, and climate change.

The chapters in this edited volume spur conversations with different thought systems and their underlying assumptions about the composition of structures of time and contingent temporalities. The authors engage rising temperatures in the oceans and air, the consequences, intended and unintended, of investments in various forms of "development", and the potential catastrophe unfolding in real time. Recent temporal strategies such as mitigation and adaptation to the "climate crisis" are challenged as they further compound and commodify the inquiry, the understanding and responses to environmental degradations, extractions, and displacements. Anti-colonial and decolonial debates about the structures of time, the planetary, and ecology are crucial contributions of this volume. Further, privileging the vantage points of the colonized and enslaved, the authors of this volume challenge dominant universal, cyclical, and retrospective structures of time and the planetary. Through research, poetry, art, and popular cultural analyses, the authors attend to the ways that the struggles of the "submerged," indigenous and black communities for climate justice become coded as a global warming crisis.

This volume grapples with how racial climate struggles and unrest become mobilized both as a source of paralysis and as an opportunity for further expropriation and expansion of data accumulation markets for settler planetary projects all in the name of global warming. Ultimately, the authors in this volume argue that conventional attempts at exploiting the planetary all depend upon ideas of conquest and the mastery and control of ecologies, global governance, and individual behaviors. In this sense, fears about the unknown future of our planet miss what is at stake in the structures of time, the question of creation and invention.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Globalizations.

Table of Contents:

Preface Introduction: About time: climate change and inventions of the decolonial, planetarity and radical existence PART I: The question of radical existence 1. Humility in the Anthropocene 2. Submerged perspectives: the arts of land and water defense 3. Beyond the secular Anthropocene: Locke’s self-owning body, protestant translations of indigenous world-making, and the settler-colonial plantation economy 4. On the question of time, racial capitalism, and the planetary 5. Indigenous resistance, planetary dystopia, and the politics of environmental justice PART II: Profound challenges of climate change and climate science 6. Beyond the premise of conquest: Indigenous and Black earth-worlds in the Anthropocene debates 7. Multiple Anthropocenes: pluralizing space–time as a response to ‘the Anthropocene’ 8. A puzzle: the environment/development constellation in Madagascar 9. Time to change? Technologies of futuring and transformative change in Nepal’s climate change policy 10. Financialization and suburbanization: the predatory hegemony of suburban-financial nexus in Istanbul 11. Producing nationalized futures of climate change and science in India 12. Connecting human and planetary health: interview with Christiana Figueres PART III: Radical existence and ecological imaginaries 13. Welcome to the Anthropocene: Gregory Bateson, disaster porn, Swamp Thing, and ‘The Green’ 14. ‘Welcome to Mars’: space colonization, anticipatory authoritarianism, and the labour of hope 15. Poems 16. Poems 17. Tipping Point: Kay S. Lawrence’s exhibition on climate emergency 18. ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’: the Anthropecene and the cyclical time of human suffering 19. Conversations on education, time and the planetary