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Political Ecologies of Futurity
Storytelling Plantation Afterlives, Climate Erasures, and Socioecological Justice
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Political Ecologies of Futurity
Storytelling Plantation Afterlives, Climate Erasures, and Socioecological Justice
About this book
Political Ecologies of Futurity: Storytelling Plantation Afterlives, Climate Erasures, and Socioecological Justice-examines the entanglements of memory, place, and nature in the face of global socioecological transformation. Speaking from a range of disciplinary perspectives and drawing on different epistemological and methodological approaches, the chapters examine the plurality of climate change geographies. As painful as they are, the erasure of landscapes that are artefacts of coloniality, racial capitalism, and environmental injustice does not herald placid futures. Erasure can make the present sterile, allowing for apolitical visions of the future to manifest, futures in which marginalized communities are not present. This diminishes prospects for climate justice or any sense of equitable futurity.
With ten chapters-featuring case studies from five countries and three distinct regions of the United States-along with an Introduction and Conclusion by the editors, 2 original poems, artistic sketch, and an Afterword from Mimi Sheller, this volume creatively demonstrates the potential of storytelling for making sense of climate change and the ecological politics of futures beyond the plantationocene. That is to say, the role storytelling can play in helping us understand the complex temporalities of socioecological transformation.
With ten chapters-featuring case studies from five countries and three distinct regions of the United States-along with an Introduction and Conclusion by the editors, 2 original poems, artistic sketch, and an Afterword from Mimi Sheller, this volume creatively demonstrates the potential of storytelling for making sense of climate change and the ecological politics of futures beyond the plantationocene. That is to say, the role storytelling can play in helping us understand the complex temporalities of socioecological transformation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: The Future’s Past and Memories of the Future
- Part I: Landscape Erasure in/as the Afterlives of Colonialism
- Rain
- Chapter 1: Eaten Away by Erosion: The Erasure of the Coloniality of the Kongenstein and Prinzenstein Forts in the Volta River Delta of Ghana?
- Chapter 2: “I’d Fly Back to de Ole Country if I Could”: Crafting Climate Change Futures from Plantation Stories
- Chapter 3: Black Cemeteries as Repositories of Memory in the Urban Environmental Justice Landscape
- Chapter 4: Plantation Imaginarium: Futures and Afterlives of Oil Palm Plantations in Indonesia
- Part II: Political Ecologies in the Wake of Capitalism’s Disasters
- Sacred Treasures for the Apocalypse: “The pot on the side of a cliff where one finds wild honey”
- Chapter 5: Hurricane Katrina and the Fate of the Green Dot
- Chapter 6: Telling Climate Stories in Unlikely Places: Insights from Rural Appalachia
- Chapter 7: Collective Memory and Ancestral Rights to a Toxic Land
- Part III: Liveable Futures Beyond Apocalypse
- Future imperfect
- Chapter 8: Changing Climates, Same Old Stories: Recognizing and Intersecting the Futurities of Bahia’s Ancestral (Agro)forests
- Chapter 9: Swamp Futures
- Chapter 10: Who Stands for the Climate?: On the Ambivalent Poetics of Contiguity
- Coda
- Conclusion: Learning from Stories About Climates Past, Present, and Future
- Afterword: (A)Wake
- Contributor Bios
- Index