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Islands, the Anthropocene, and decolonisation
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-21, 15:41 authored by Elaine StratfordElaine Stratford, Farbotko, C, Phillipa WatsonPhillipa Watson, Kitara, T, Berthelsen, J, Chnaraki, M, Ginoza, A, Cozier, C, Hardenberg, JEThe Anthropocene is deployed as incontrovertible fact, yet its foundations merit strong critique to challenge how particular voices and locations are absented, silenced, or enrolled in the fallacies that attend this epochal framework. Other placed, grounded, and scale-sensitive explanations exist for present and future state scenarios, including on islands—often the focus of apocalyptic thinking. Dealing with historical and contemporary struggles to decolonise is more powerful than engaging with a reified framework that is part of ongoing colonial-imperial excesses, uneven development, and racial capitalism. This work considers how four of us, as instigating authors, worked with five others, as collaborating authors, to understand academic works, activism, and artistic expressions of island life and concerns. Our aim was to learn about how and why their efforts to prioritise decolonisation is at the heart of what is needed to shore up island peoples’ futures.
History
Publication title
AntipodePagination
1-20ISSN
0066-4812Department/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial SciencesPublisher
Blackwell PublishersPlace of publication
350 Main Street, Ste 6, Malden, USA, Ma, 02148Rights statement
Copyright 2023 The Authors. Antipode published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Antipode Foundation Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.Repository Status
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