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Book SynopsisThis 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
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
