_African Climate Futures_ shows how climate-changed futures are
imagined in Africa and by Africans, and how these future visions shape
political debates and struggles in the present. Scientific climate
scenarios forecast bleak futures, with increased droughts, floods,
lethal heatwaves, sea level rises, declining crop yields, and greater
exposure to vector-borne diseases. Yet, African climate futures could
also encompass energy transitions and socio-economic revolutions,
transformed political agency and human subjectivities, and radically
reparative more-than-human climate politics.
At the heart of the book is an original and interdisciplinary
approach. It studies official climate policy strategies and fictional
texts side-by-side, as ecopolitical imaginaries that envision
low-carbon, climate-changed futures, and narrate pathways from 'here'
to 'there'. It discusses net zero strategies from Ethiopia, The
Gambia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe and draws on postcolonial,
feminist, and queer theory, arguing that Africanfuturist climate
fiction can inspire more radical, reparative, more-than-human
ecopolitical imaginaries. These stories can help us to understand the
debts we all owe, imagine what reparations might entail, and explore
the contours of living convivially alongside more-than-human others in
heterotopian, climate-changed futures.
Stories can help explore how we might feel in climate-changed futures
and can help us to narrate a path through them. This book uses
Africanfuturist climate fiction to inspire new ways of challenging and
enriching theoretical debates in global climate change politics,
including how we understand the places, temporalities, ecologies, and
politics of climate futures. If we want to survive to tell new stories
in liveable futures then we need to urgently and radically transform
carboniferous capitalism.
_Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations_ is a
series for scholars and students working on African politics and
International Relations and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate
on contemporary developments in African political science, political
economy, and International Relations, such as electoral politics,
democratization, decentralization, gender and political
representation, the political impact of natural resources, the
dynamics and consequences of conflict, comparative political thought,
and the nature of the continent's engagement with the East and West.
Comparative and mixed methods work is particularly encouraged. Case
studies are welcomed but should demonstrate the broader theoretical
and empirical implications of the study and its wider relevance to
contemporary debates. The focus of the series is on sub-Saharan
Africa, although proposals that explain how the region engages with
North Africa and other parts of the world are of interest.
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ISBN
9780198960751
Publisert
2025
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Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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