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Author:   LaToya E. Eaves ,  Heidi J. Nast ,  Alex G. Papadopoulos
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:  

9789819997633

ISBN 10:   9819997631
Pages:   562
Publication Date:   13 May 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction.- I.  Relational ontology, death, and the maternal.- Part One. The maternal ≠ {Mother + Child}: Relational ontology and the mattering of Black lives (Planetary pasts).- Part two:  The maternal ≠ {Mother + Child}: Relational ontology and the mattering of Black lives (Planetary futures).- The BlackSpace Manifesto: ‘Living’ Black liberatory futures.-  Remaindered Commons: Notes towards post-socialist futures in China vis-à-vis the Black Outdoors.- The necromancy of derivative violence: Finance capitalism, planetary pandemics, and speculative wagers on death in the Anthropocene.- II.  How I Got Over: On Black Tomorrows.- “Symbols AND systems!” The Take ‘Em Down, NOLA’s decolonial approach to memory work”.- Rewriting the world: Climate fiction, Black future-space making, and the speculative project of justice.- Critical engagement into GIS methods while wrestling with slavery’s archive.- III.  Sovereignty in the Capitalocene as the crucible of difference in the post-Anthropocene.- Algorithmic finance and the anthropogenic environmental crisis in “accelerando”: Science of finance capital as catalyst of climate change.- The Tourismocene: Barcelona, overtourism, and the spatial futures of the polis.- Environmental futures and urbanity entangled in nuclear legacies in the Baltic Sea coastal towns of Paldiski and Sillamäe.- Transmotion in the folkhem: Automobility, epistemicide, and the post-Anthropocene.- IV  Speculative futures as a lens for “staying human in the cataclysm.”.- But that’s just mad! Reading the utopian impulse in Dark princess and Black empire.- Troubling the anthropos in the post-Anthropocene: Liu Cixin’s Three-Body trilogy.- Smart and cruel. Cities in the thrall of artificial intelligence in the fiction of William Gibson and Cory Doctorow.

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LaToya E. Eaves, PhD, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is a scholar of Black geographies. Her research emphasizes questions of power, non-essentialism and embodiment, centering Blackness, gender, Black feminism, and the U.S. South. Heidi J. Nast, PhD, Professor of International Studies, DePaul University, is interested in how difference evolutionarily, culturally, and ontologically unfolds and operates across worlds and psyches, the power that difference serves, and the difference that power makes. Alex G. Papadopoulos, PhD, Professor of Geography, DePaul University. An urban and political geographer, his specialties range from geopolitics and applied diplomacy, to heritage studies, regional analysis, and LGBTIQ+ studies.

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