1st Edition

Race in the Anthropocene Coloniality, Disavowal and the Black Horizon

By Farai Chipato, David Chandler Copyright 2025
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Acknowledgements

 

Chapter 1

Introduction: Posthumanism and Disavowal

 

Chapter 2

The Black Horizon in Context

 

Chapter 3

Another Approach to Decoloniality is Possible

 

Chapter 4

How Race Matters

 

Chapter 5

Unsettling Peace

 

Chapter 6

Unlearning Development

 

Chapter 7

Race as a Technology

 

Chapter 8

Conclusion: Metapolitics and the Black Horizon

 

References

 

Index

Biography

Farai Chipato is Lecturer in Black Geographies at the University of Glasgow.

David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster. He edits Anthropocenes: Human, Inhuman, Posthuman and has published widely on the Anthropocene, political ontology, and international theory.

Race in the Anthropocene calls for the radical transformation of the world that slaveholding and colonialism have made. With rigor and theoretical power, Chipato and Chandler provide a much-needed riposte against the racial fantasies of posthumanism and the facile forms of decolonization that too often grip the philosophical summations of this world. While critical thought can seem beholden to the past, Race in the Anthropocene clears the ground for a praxis of invention.

--P. Khalil Saucier, Professor of Critical Black Studies, Bucknell University, PA, USA