Disrupting the Anthropocene Temporalities of Mourning and Care in the Postapocalyptic Present

Postcolonial Narratives and the "Crisis of Imagination" in the Anthropocene

Climate change poses a problem that fiction has struggled to address. Amitav Ghosh names this failure the "Great Derangement," a civilizational blindness built into the modern novel itself. This paper examines how postcolonial narrative, and Ghosh's own fiction in particular, responds to what he calls a crisis of imagi...

Action Reimagined: Literary Representations of Activism in the Context of the Crisis of the Present

Abstract Recent years have witnessed a waning trust in institutions and radical challenges to democratic governance even in resilient democracies, leading to increasing concerns about democratic backsliding and an overall crisis of democracy. The emerging technoliberal rationality, with its neoreactionary tendencies, h...

The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century by Zozan Pehlivan (review)

The Multiplying Worlds of Ma Joie

This essay explores the environmental and spatial afterlives of plantation colonialism in the Seychelles through an ecofeminist auto-theoretical approach. Drawing on family archives and field philosophical research, the author reflects on her position as the granddaughter of a former plantation owner while tracing the...

Socioecologías de cuidado. Aportes para pensar el sostenimiento de nuestro mundo en medio de las grietas extractivistas

We inhabit multispecies landscapes that we adapt to our needs, transforming them into habitats with local and global consequences for all those who coexist within them, human and nonhuman alike. In contexts shaped by colonial, neoliberal, and extractivist regimes of disturbance, the sustainability of life has been plac...

Funny Bones

Judging from the sway of dystopian and (post)-apocalyptic scenarios in contemporary Anthropocene fiction, our concern for climate change and ecological upheaval has been particularly receptive to narrative forms derived from the catastrophic imaginary, with comic modes often getting evicted from the province of environ...