This book probes the interconnections of time and ecology in order
to spark our imagination and inspire us to re-think the planetary,
ecology, and otherwise. It presents debates that interrogate and
elucidate the anxieties of the known and the unknown of this world
and the planetary beyond, sifting through temporal accounts of the
Anthropocene, human beings, and climate change. The chapters in
this edited volume spur conversations with different thought
systems and their underlying assumptions about the composition of
structures of time and contingent temporalities. The authors engage
rising temperatures in the oceans and air, the consequences,
intended and unintended, of investments in various forms of
"development", and the potential catastrophe unfolding in real
time. Recent temporal strategies such as mitigation and adaptation
to the "climate crisis" are challenged as they further compound and
commodify the inquiry, the understanding and responses to
environmental degradations, extractions, and displacements.
Anti-colonial and decolonial debates about the structures of time,
the planetary, and ecology are crucial contributions of this
volume. Further, privileging the vantage points of the colonized
and enslaved, the authors of this volume challenge dominant
universal, cyclical, and retrospective structures of time and the
planetary. Through research, poetry, art, and popular cultural
analyses, the authors attend to the ways that the struggles of the
"submerged," indigenous and black communities for climate justice
become coded as a global warming crisis. This volume grapples with
how racial climate struggles and unrest become mobilized both as a
source of paralysis and as an opportunity for further expropriation
and expansion of data accumulation markets for settler planetary
projects all in the name of global warming. Ultimately, the authors
in this volume argue that conventional attempts at exploiting the
planetary all depend upon ideas of conquest and the mastery and
control of ecologies, global governance, and individual behaviors.
In this sense, fears about the unknown future of our planet miss
what is at stake in the structures of time, the question of
creation and invention. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of the journal, Globalizations.
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