Race in the Anthropocene provides a radical new perspective on the importance of race and coloniality in the Anthropocene. It forwards the Black Horizon as a critical lens which places at its heart the importance of ontological concerns fundamental to problematising the violences and exclusions of the antiblack world.
At present, multiple new approaches are emerging through the shared problem field of Anthropocene thought and policy, offering to save not just the world, but the practice of governance, the business of Big Data, the progress of development, and the dream of peace. It is against this backdrop that Race in the Anthropocene unsettles not just the already shaky foundations of modernity but also the affirmative visions of its critics, by directing our gaze to how race and coloniality are baked into the grounding concepts of international thought.
SPEAKERS
Farai Chipato is a lecturer in Black Geographies at the University of Glasgow, UK. His work addresses Black social and political thought, international interventions and African politics. His work has been published in International Political Sociology, Global Studies Quarterly, Political Geography and Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
David Chandler is a Professor of International Relations, University of Westminster, London, UK. He edits the journal Anthropocenes - Human, Inhuman, Posthuman and has published around 30 books (authored and edited). His recent monographs include: World as Abyss: The Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene (Westminster, 2023); Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds (Westminster, 2021) and Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).
MODERATOR
Lys Kulamadayil, Geneva Graduate Institute
This event is co-hosted by the Global Governance Centre and the International Law Department
This event is part of the ‘Law by Colour Code: Locating Race and Racism in International Law’ project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
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