This book probes the interconnections of time and ecology in order to spark our imagination and re-think a planetary, and ecology, otherwise.
Anna M. Agathangelou is Professor of Politics at York University. She is the co-editor (with Kyle D. Killian) of Time, Temporality and Violence in International Relations: (De)fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives (2016) Routledge; co-author with L.H.M. Ling of Transforming World Politics: From Empire to Multiple Worlds, and author of The Global Political Economy of Sex: Desire, Violence and Insecurity in Mediterranean Nation-States.
Kyle D. Killian is a licensed family therapist, Professor, and Clinical Supervisor who publishes in the areas of trauma, resilience, professional self-care, and intercultural relationships. His books include Interracial Couples, Intimacy & Therapy and Intercultural Couples: Exploring Diversity in Intimate Relationships. Dr. Killian blogs at Psychology Today.
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