Thread by @Prof_FSultana

Here is the long-awaited & years-in-the-making paper on #ClimateColoniality! It was my plenary lecture for @Pol_Geog_Jl at the 2022 @theAAG conference.

Access the text here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1evla_Lupus%…

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Coloniality #Decolonization

I intertwine theories, empirics & storytelling to ground theorizations of climate coloniality in lived experiences. I demonstrated how such theorization are legitimate sites of geopolitical knowledge & counterbalances to hegemonic framings, epistemic violences & structural forces

I demonstrate the pathways through which colonialism haunts the past, present & future through climate. Climate coloniality is perpetuated through neoliberalism, racial capitalism, development interventions, education, training & the media.

I show how climate coloniality seeps through everyday life across space & time, weighing down & curtailing opportunities & possibilities through a toxic mix of global racisms, rapacious extractivism, colonial-capital dispossessions, climate debts, patriarchy & imperialism.

I evidence the fertile grounds where colonial & imperial wounds, and the resultant rage, grief, resistance & desires, are not minimized but recognized as part of the driving forces of resurgence & collective liberation for a possible decolonized climate justice.

This means addressing complexities of colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, international development & geopolitics that contribute to the reproduction of ongoing colonialities through existing global governance structures, discursive framings, imagined solutions & interventions.

Ultimately, undoing climate coloniality involves addressing both epistemic violences & material outcomes.

The paper includes bilingual auto-ethnography, draws from Othered knowledges globally, provides counternarratives to certain types of centering & expertise + more. Publication was delayed bc of publisher couldn’t publish in non-Eurocentric script (irony of publishing coloniality)

This was one of the most difficult papers I’ve written, it was hard to be so vulnerable. There are valid concerns of being pathologized, dismissed, fetishized. I take the vulnerability as strength & show how it matters to theory & praxis. I thus counter whiteness of climate grief

I hope folks take time to read the article, it’s not meant to be read in a rush, cursorily or skimmed. Re-reading helps I’ve been told. The long interdisciplinary bibliography is my way to fight against hegemonic citational politics in academia & to provide additional resources.

PDF of the #ClimateColoniality article online is here too: farhanasultana.com/wp-content/upl…