Islands,the Anthropocene,and Decolonisation |
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| Authors: | Elaine Stratford Carol Farbotko Phillipa Watson Taukiei Kitara Juno Berthelsen Maria Chnaraki aka Maria Hnaraki Ayano Ginoza Christopher Cozier Julie Edel Hardenberg |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia;2. School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia;3. Independent scholar-activist and Indigenous knowledge custodian;4. Independent scholar-activist;5. College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA;6. Research Institute for Islands and Sustainability, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan;7. Independent visual artist |
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| Abstract: | The Anthropocene is deployed as incontrovertible fact, yet its foundations merit strong critique to challenge how particular voices and locations are absented, silenced, or enrolled in the fallacies that attend this epochal framework. Other placed, grounded, and scale-sensitive explanations exist for present and future state scenarios, including on islands—often the focus of apocalyptic thinking. Dealing with historical and contemporary struggles to decolonise is more powerful than engaging with a reified framework that is part of ongoing colonial-imperial excesses, uneven development, and racial capitalism. This work considers how four of us, as instigating authors, worked with five others, as collaborating authors, to understand academic works, activism, and artistic expressions of island life and concerns. Our aim was to learn about how and why their efforts to prioritise decolonisation is at the heart of what is needed to shore up island peoples’ futures. |
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| Keywords: | aesthetic reckoning flow geopower islands and archipelagos language local and particular |
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