Climate coloniality as atmospheric violence: From necropolitics toward planetary mutuality

Climate coloniality as atmospheric violence: From necropolitics toward planetary mutuality

This response builds with Farhana Sultana's 2022 Political Geography plenary address on “The Unbearable Heaviness of Climate Coloniality” to analyze climate coloniality as an atmospheric form of violence. Drawing on the work of Franz Fanon and Achille Mbembe, I consider how climate coloniality...

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Published in:Political geography Vol. 99; p. 102786
Main Author: DeBoom, Meredith J.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 01-11-2022
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Summary:This response builds with Farhana Sultana's 2022 Political Geography plenary address on “The Unbearable Heaviness of Climate Coloniality” to analyze climate coloniality as an atmospheric form of violence. Drawing on the work of Franz Fanon and Achille Mbembe, I consider how climate coloniality manifests through the logics of necropolitics, including the mutual constitution of abstraction and extraction and the propagation of fraudulent universalisms. I conclude by contemplating how the transgressive solidarity envisioned by Sultana might be cultivated through a planetary mutuality centered on the universal breath and an ethic of being-in-the-world-with-and-through-others.
ISSN:0962-6298
1873-5096
DOI:10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102786