Toward Durability of Worlds and Responsive Capacity

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Abstract

Adriana Petryna’s essay “Futurities Rethought” is an extension of her groundbreaking monograph Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change, which in my view constitutes an analytically powerful pushback and manifesto against catastrophic thinking and end-of-the-world panic in the face of the rapidity of climate change. The essay’s aim is to amplify the book’s call for a paradigmatic shift in understanding, maintaining, and retrieving the human capacity for response to climate change. While commenting on the ir- reversible dynamic of climate change and the destructive im- pact of colonial violence on the human capacity to respond to climate change, Petryna offers a way-finding trajectory helping to determine the right route toward durable worlds.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)600-601
Number of pages2
JournalCurrent Anthropology
Volume65
Issue number4
Early online date31 Jul 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2024

Keywords

  • environment
  • anthropology
  • Wildfires
  • climate change
  • Indigenous knowledge
  • knowledge politics

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