A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
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Kathryn Yusoff examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. She 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.
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Some scholars reinterpret worldwide capitalist domination as the 'racial Capitalocene' or 'racial capitalism', emphasising the centrality of racism and colonialism.
“Some scholars emphasise the centrality of racism and colonialism in the worldwide capitalist domination, and thus reinterpret it as the 'racial Capitalocene' or 'racial capitalism' (Gonzalez, 2020; Vergès, 2017; Yusoff, 2018).”
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“…et al., 2019), while social science and humanities perspectives have challenged the ways human activities and historical processes are understood and incorporated within such a geological classification (e.g., Malm and Hornborg, 2014; Bauer and Bhan, 2018; Bauer and Ellis, 2018; Yusoff, 2018).”
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“…Moore (2017), acknowl-edging the differential experience of scarcity. some scholars emphasise the centrality of racism and colo-nialism in the worldwide capitalist domination, and thus reinterpret it as the ‘racial capitalocene’ or ‘racial capitalism’ (Gonzalez, 2020; Vergès, 2017; Yusoff, 2018).”
- Authors
- Yusoff, K.
- Corresponding author
- Yusoff, Kathryn
- Venue
- Forerunners
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Published
- 2018-11
- ISSN
- 2373-5074 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2900621324
- Cited by
- 2,370
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 229 · 2025: 361 · 2024: 384 · 2023: 452 · 2022: 337 · 2021: 355 · 2020: 205 · 2019: 45 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 513.12
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Forerunners (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Keywords
- geology, colonialism, slavery, extractivism, materiality, deep time, race, earth sciences
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