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. The volume attends to a central question: How does climate related transformation of commemorative landscapes of slavery, settler-colonialism, and racial capitalist extraction affect the prospects of climate change storytelling, and prospects for climate justice by proxy? Speaking from a range of disciplinary perspectives and drawing on and combining 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 landscape 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.

Autorentext
Alex A. Moulton is an assistant professor of geography and environmental science at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and a member of the faculty in the earth and environmental sciences program at The Graduate School and University Center of CUNY. Dylan M. Harris** is an assistant professor of geography and environmental studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS).

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: 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?
Kwame N. Owusu-Daaku, Josiah S. Tawiah, and Nelson X. Kowu
Chapter 2: "I'd Fly Back to de Ole Country if I Could": Crafting Climate Change Futures from Plantation Stories
Travis K. Bost
Chapter 3: Spatial Significance: Black Cemeteries as Repositories of Memory in the Urban Environmental Justice Landscape
Jennifer R. Blanks
Chapter 4: Plantation Imaginarium: Futures and Afterlives of Palm Oil Plantations in Indonesia
Perdana P. Roswaldy

Part 2: Political Ecologies in the Wake of Capitalism's Disasters
Sacred Treasures for the Apocalypse
Chapter 5: Hurricane Katrina and the Fate of the Green Dot
Sahar Zavareh Hofmann
Chapter 6: Telling climate stories in unlikely places: Insights from rural Appalachia
Jamie Shinn
Chapter 7: Collective Memory and Ancestral Rights to a Toxic Land
Maricarmen Hernández and Pablo Minda

Part 3: Liveable Futures Beyond Apocalypse
Future imperfect
Chapter 8: Changing Climates, Same Old Stories: Recognizing and Intersecting the Futurities of Bahia's Ancestral (Agro)forests
Case Watkins
Chapter 9: Swamp Futures
Morgan P. Vickers
Chapter 10: Who Stands for the Climate? On The Ambivalent Poetics of Contiguity
Casey A. Williams
Coda
Conclusion
Afterword