Overview
- Establishes multidisciplinary alliances that will be necessary in the post-Anthropocene
- Makes bold use of future worlds literatures and dystopian speculative fiction
- Brings multiple perspectives by scholars from a range of interdisciplinary fields
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About this book
Spatial Futures invites readers to imagine power and freedom through the lens of the ‘Black Outdoors’, a transdisciplinary spatial concept that operates beyond the planetary, stratigraphic confines of the ‘Anthropocene’. The chapters collectively point to the ontological-epistemological contradictions involved in forging liberatory spatial futures. Bringing new spatial imaginaries to bear in and outside geography, the book refuses the strictures of the ‘cenic’, entertaining difference as world-making.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Relational Ontology, Death, and the Maternal
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How I Got Over: On Black Tomorrows
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Sovereignty in the Capitalocene as the Crucible of Difference in the Post-Anthropocene
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Speculative Futures as a Lens for “Staying Human in the Cataclysm.”
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Reviews
“Here is a primer that tracks and unharnesses colonial time, offering capacious possibilities for otherworldbuilding. Drawing on wide-ranging analytical contexts, the collection draws attention to the multifarious ways that capital, finance, and militarism circulate through, bear down on, and generate alternative expressions of planetary well-being.”
--Katherine McKittrick, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies, Queen’s University, Canada and author of Dear Science and Other Stories
“This collection plots new ontological ground for moving beyond the geo-logic violence of the Anthropocene, building on liberatory pathways, present and past.”
--Maano Ramutsindela, Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa and author of Transfrontier Conservation in Africa: At the Confluence of Capital, Politics and Nature
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
LaToya E. Eaves, PhD, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is a scholar of Black geographies. Her research emphasizes questions of power, non-essentialism and embodiment, centering Blackness, gender, Black feminism, and the U.S. South.
Heidi J. Nast, PhD, Professor of International Studies, DePaul University, is interested in how difference evolutionarily, culturally, and ontologically unfolds and operates across worlds and psyches, the power that difference serves, and the difference that power makes.
Alex G. Papadopoulos, PhD, Professor of Geography, DePaul University. An urban and political geographer, his specialties range from geopolitics and applied diplomacy, to heritage studies, regional analysis, and LGBTIQ+ studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spatial Futures
Book Subtitle: Difference and the Post-Anthropocene
Editors: LaToya E. Eaves, Heidi J. Nast, Alex G. Papadopoulos
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9761-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-9760-2Published: 12 May 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-9763-3Due: 09 October 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-9761-9Published: 11 May 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 562
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Anthropology, Urban Studies/Sociology, Sustainable Development