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It seems we have reached the end of the world. Floods destroy, fires rage, and pandemics spread, catastrophes that may only increase in frequency and intensity. But the end of the world is not news. For those whose bodies have been the objects of exploitation, and environments that have been the objects of extraction, apocalypse is not an event but a structure, not a sudden catastrophe but a chronic condition. Humans must make a radical change in their practices of inhabitation on this wasted planet earth.
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Jodi Byrd understands the entanglement of these histories in the context of the U.S. “U.S. imperialism relied upon both horizontal and vertical axes of colonization, slavery, racism, North, South, East and West to structure and suture itself to the notion that its very foundational democracy was antithetical to colonialism and imperialism, slavery and incarceration” (2011: 12).
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Over 2000 workers formed Bokk Djom, or Our Shared Pride, to defend their interests, yet among the workers are children, who die of pollutants and the underground fires which spontaneously burst forth.
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Brown, J. (2022). Redreaming the Human and the Ethics of Terraformation. In: Williams, N., Keating, T. (eds) Speculative Geographies. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0691-6_2
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