"Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta!" Postcolonial Remains and the Politics of the Anthropo-ob(S)cene

Andrés Fabián Henao Castro; Henrik Ernstson

"Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta!" Postcolonial Remains and the Politics of the Anthropo-ob(S)cene

Andrés Fabián Henao Castro, Henrik Ernstson

Geography

University of Massachusetts

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Abstract

We use postcolonial theory to interrogate the discourse of “the Anthropocene” and its depoliticizing effects. It is maintained that the way that “the Anthropocene” discourse has been articulated within parts of postcolonial theory is deeply problematic and risks making the political itself categorically unthinkable and ontologically evacuated. In an attempt to disrupt this deadlock, we combine post-foundational and postcolonial theory to propose three performative interruptions against conditions of exclusion—the politics of time, the politics of translation, and the politics of the stage. These build a platform to re-launch the political performativity of subaltern experiences in the here and now.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene
Subtitle of host publication	Interruptions and Possibilities
Editors	Henrik Ernstson, Erik Swyngedouw
Place of Publication	London & New York
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	4
Pages	69
Number of pages	87
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315210537
ISBN (Print)	9781138629196, 9781138629189
Publication status	Published - 2019

Publication series

Name	Questioning Cities
Publisher	Routledge

Keywords

Postcolonial
Decolonial
Anthropocene
Radical democracy
Ranciere
Environment

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Global inequalities

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"Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta!" Postcolonial Remains and the Politics of the Anthropo-ob(S)cene. / Henao Castro, Andrés Fabián; Ernstson, Henrik.
Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene : Interruptions and Possibilities. ed. / Henrik Ernstson; Erik Swyngedouw. London & New York: Routledge, 2019. p. 69 (Questioning Cities).

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