In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt
posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first
decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and
planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity,
neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity in their pre- and
postmillennial forms, Pratt reflects on the crisis of futurity that
accompanies the millennial turn in relation to environmental
disaster and to the new forms of thinking it has catalyzed. She
turns to 1990s Latin American vernacular culture, literary fiction,
and social movements, which simultaneously registered
neoliberalism's devastating effects and pursued alternate ways of
knowing and living. Tracing the workings of colonialism alongside
the history of anticolonial struggles and Indigenous mobilizations
in the Americas, Pratt analyzes indigeneity both as a key index of
coloniality, neoliberal extraction, and ecological destruction, and
as a source for alternative modes of thought and being. Ultimately,
Pratt demonstrates that the changes on either side of the
millennium have catalyzed new forms of world-making and
knowledge-making in the face of an unknowable and catastrophic
future.
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