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Coloniality and the Anthropocene thinking: voices of non-Eurocentric knowledges and beings. 
Convenors:
Eyob Balcha Gebremariam (University of Bristol)
Yirga Woldeyes (Curtin University)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
Decolonisation
Location:
Palmer 1.05
Sessions:
Thursday 29 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

The Anthropocene is a geohistorical event of European imperialism and racialised capitalism driven by Eurocentric epistemologies. Hence, the "crisis in the Anthropocene" is a crisis of Eurocentrism. How can we learn/re-imagine non-destructive co-existence with nature from non-Eurocentric knowledges?

Long Abstract:

The Anthropocene is a geohistorical event where European imperialism and racialised capitalism play a vital role. Eurocentric epistemological orientations provided the intellectual underpinning to shape human-to-human and human-to-nature relations. Hence, the "crisis in the Anthropocene" is a crisis of Eurocentrism.

Decentring Eurocentric orientations from our understanding of the Anthropocene enables imagining multiple ways of examining the human-to-human and human-to-nature relations across the world. The race-neutral, "scientific" narratives that explain the ongoing "crisis in the Anthropocene" hardly recognise the existence of non-Eurocentric histories, knowledges, and beings. Hence, one way of critically examining and understanding the "crisis" is by recentring the histories, epistemologies, realities and experiences of societies that received the negatives of European imperialism.

Socio-historical processes often presented as civilisation and development have untold darker sides of dehumanisation, destruction and exploitation. Acknowledging the experiences of marginal voices require epistemic repositioning. We propose coloniality as a useful analytical framework for examining the interplay between Eurocentric and non-Eurocentric ways of existence and knowledge frameworks.

We invite papers that foreground non-Eurocentric onto-epistemic orientations, histories and socio-political and economic relations from which we can learn multiple ways of co-existence with nature without being a source of crisis and destruction. Papers may address questions such as: how can we learn and re-imagine non-destructive co-existence with nature from non-Eurocentric knowledges? How have societies resisted and survived colonial systems and institutions that led to the "crisis of the Anthropocene"? We also welcome papers that broadly address decolonial approaches to studying the Anthropocene.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 29 June, 2023, -
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