Mapping Black Ecologies

Roane, J. T.; Hosbey, Justin

doi:10.31835/crdh.2019.05

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“…The different strands brought together in that hybrid ecology are (1) the interactions among Africans from different religious traditions, languages, and lineages; (2) from coerced interactions with different European cultures in Africa and via the Middle Passage; and (3) interactions with American Whites. African American ecologies can be said to exhibit themes of resistance to slavery and post‐Reconstruction oppression as well (Hacker, 2018; Roane & Hosbey, 2019). Gardening is one form of resistance that spans from the days of slavery, through the sharecropping era, to urban agriculture in vacant lots.…”

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Toward pluralizing ecology: Finding common ground across sociocultural and scientific perspectives

2022

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Ecologists increasingly work with people from other fields, in which scholars, practitioners, and activists often pluralize: "ecologies." By contrast, biophysical ecologists use the singular. Specialists beyond ecological science may avoid the singular because it evokes environmental determinism, lack of human agency, and disrespect for ways of knowing beyond science. Some social analysts consider biophysical ecology itself to be but one way of knowing, which embodies social positioning and uneven power relations. For their part, ecologists often ignore discussions featuring the term "ecologies" as unrelated to their work. The authors-one anthropologist and two biophysical ecologistswish to facilitate social-ecological interaction by evaluating the conceptual content of the plural versus singular contrast. We suggest there are fundamental differences between ecology in the singular and plural. We examine these differences by showing that the singular and the plural within ecological science differ in specificity versus generality. In the view of social critiques, however, the conflict reflects political power differentials and social position of science. We explore whether there are productive parallels between these contrasting implications of the singular versus plural. Social criticisms of singular ecology include lack of system openness, open-ended dynamics, contingent pathways of change, and human agency in ecological processes. We find value in these critiques and have grappled with these issues ourselves. We find that contemporary ecology often employs concepts amenable to those in social critiques. This finding demonstrates why ecologists should not be so quick to dismiss plural ecology as a meaningful phrase. We show that concerns of the social critiques embodied in the plural term parallel ecology's use of (1) multiple models to understand a topic, (2) multifaceted, scalable concepts, and (3) nested dialog between generality and specificity. We conclude that the use of the plural and singular actually share a conceptual foundation that can facilitate interdisciplinary integration and scholarship. Furthermore, the emerging awareness by ecologists of the concerns about the politics of power in science

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2022

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“…For them, the relationship between racism/coloniality and ecological degradation cannot be addressed or even transformed by focusing on crisis or emergency. They grapple with the ways we historicize and analyse black, indigenous, and diasporic ecologies and examine how such people are 'most susceptible to the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels, subsidence, sinking land, as well as ongoing effects of toxic stewardship' (Roane & Hosbey, 2019) because of the relations of temporal orientations and the planetary racial imperial order: 'these same communities, … have bearing on how we should historicize the current crisis and how we conceive of futures outside of destruction' (Roane & Hosbey, 2019).…”

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About time: climate change and inventions of the decolonial, planetarity and radical existence

Agathangelou

Killian

2021

Globalizations

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This article focuses on the underlying transformation produced by social ecological crisis-a transformation in the time scales for human agency. First, we trace how authors who conjunct readings on the question of climate change and time open up the space to question the race-based temporal technologies and their entanglement with racial planetary-capital regimes. Second, we engage with transition and adaptation. Transition and adaptation are colonial and accumulation temporal enabling conditions for the emergence, development and transmutation of the incommensurate to capitalization of the planetary. Finally, we conclude by arguing that, instead of focusing on capital's attempts to make its most 'fatal leap' between its assumed logical topologies and 'historical' cartographies by reanimating 'dead' critiques, we follow Fanon and attempt to introduce 'invention into existence,' the reactivation of living energies, their flux, and their improvisations for the conditions for a planetary as a decolonial project, not as an accomplished fact.

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“…This article thus contributes to the growing body of literature that draws together environmental anthropological attention to the Anthropocene with analyses of racial capitalism (Davis et al. 2019; Pulido 2018; Roane and Hosbey 2019; Vergès 2017). In doing so, it critiques the resiliency trope that has become common in accounts of the Anthropocene in order to center on the labor, the everyday management of conditions not of one's own making, that forging a life within the racialized Anthropocene entails.…”

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“…10 While it is important to address the lasting environmental harms resulting from colonial legacies of extraction and domination, it is also imperative to question how anthropogenic 11 accumulation-wastecatalyzes new forms of racialization and strategies of humanenvironmental management. This article thus contributes to the growing body of literature that draws together environmental anthropological attention to the Anthropocene with analyses of racial capitalism (Davis et al 2019;Pulido 2018;Roane and Hosbey 2019;Vergès 2017). In doing so, it critiques the resiliency trope that has become common in accounts of the Anthropocene in order to center on the labor, the everyday management of conditions not of one's own making, that forging a life within the racialized Anthropocene entails.…”

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The Limits of Resilience: Managing Waste in the Racialized Anthropocene

Resnick

2021

American Anthropologist

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Recent anthropological attention to more-than-human life has neglected the importance of race and racialization in human responses to environmental change. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with waste management institutions and Romani waste laborers in urban Bulgaria, this article invokes the concept of the racialized Anthropocene to destabilize the unmarked whiteness upon which the turn to humans-as-a-species-anthropos-is founded. Habituation is central to both EU waste policy and the generative strategies Romani street sweepers use to manage accumulated waste and the conditions of their racialized labor. I call these creative and quotidian strategies anthropogenic management. Anthropogenic management disrupts the resiliency paradigm that has become commonplace in analyses of how people respond to circumstances not of their own making. As such, it bridges the Anthropocene, marked by waste accumulation at a planetary scale, with the everyday conditions of racialization through the embodied labor of managing other people's trash. [waste, labor, race, Bulgaria] RESUMEN Atención antropológica reciente a la vida más que humana ha desatendido la importancia de raza y racialización en las respuestas al cambio ambiental. Basado en trabajo de campo etnográfico con las instituciones de manejo de residuos y trabajadores Romaníes de residuos en la Bulgaria urbana, este artículo invoca el concepto del Antropoceno racializado para desestabilizar la blancura no marcada sobre la cual el giro a humanos como una especie -antropos-se funda. Habituación es central tanto para la política de residuos de la UE como las estrategias generativas que los barrenderos Romaníes de las calles utilizan para manejar los residuos acumulados y las condiciones de su trabajo racializado. Llamo a estas estrategias creativas y cotidianas manejo antropocéntrico. El manejo antropogénico interrumpe el paradigma de resiliencia que ha llegado a ser lugar común en los análisis de cómo las personas responden a las circunstancias que no son de su propia creación. Como tal, hace el puente entre el Antropoceno, marcado por una acumulación de residuos a una escala planetaria, con las condiciones de cada día de racialización a través del trabajo corporeizado de manejar los residuos de otras personas. [residuos, trabajo, raza, Bulgaria] РЕЗЮМЕ Антропологично внимание към по-голям от човешкия живот пренебрегна значението на расата и расиализацията в реакциите на хората към промените в околната среда. Базирано на етнографска работа в България с институции за управление на отпадъците и Ромски работници, заети в този процес, тази статия обръща внимание към концепцията за расовия антропоцен, за да може да разклати неотбелязваната белота, на която стъпва гледането към човека като биологичен видантропоса. Привикването е централна характеристика e както за политиките за управление на отпадъци на ЕС, така и за стратегиите, които ромските работници, заети в метене на улиците, използват, за да се справят с натрупания боклук и условията на расово маркирания им труд....

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Mapping Black Ecologies

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Toward pluralizing ecology: Finding common ground across sociocultural and scientific perspectives

Toward pluralizing ecology: Finding common ground across sociocultural and scientific perspectives

About time: climate change and inventions of the decolonial, planetarity and radical existence

The Limits of Resilience: Managing Waste in the Racialized Anthropocene

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