A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Forerunners: Ideas First) - Softcover

Yusoff, Kathryn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1517907535 ISBN 13: 9781517907532

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2018

Synopsis

Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene

No geology is neutral, writes Kathryn Yusoff. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. Yusoff initiates a transdisciplinary conversation between feminist black theory, geography, and the earth sciences, addressing the politics of the Anthropocene within the context of race, materiality, deep time, and the afterlives of geology.

Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

About this title

About the Author:

Kathryn Yusoff is Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University of London.

Review:

"Bringing forward the continental rupture in this way allows for a historically grounded and embodied understanding of geological transformation." —Antipode

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1517907535
• ISBN 13: 9781517907532
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130