Necroclimatism in a Spectral World (Dis)order?
Subtitle: Rain Petitioning, Climate and Weather Engineering in 21st Century Africa
By: edited by Artwell Nhemachena & Munyaradzi Mawere
Publisher: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Mankon, Bamenda
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9789956550463
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Climatic changes; Political aspects; Global warming; Atmospheric Greenhouse effect; Colonial influence; Africa; Nigeria; Zimbabwe; Climate change; Droughts; Indigenous knowledge; African religions; Water resources; Rural society; Land conflicts; Missions; Transport; Decolonization
Description: Highlighting the problematiques of working with a narrow version of greenhouse effects or global warming, this book posits the theory of necroclimatism that encompasses broader versions of greenhouse effects and global warming. Conceiving cultures, societies, moral sensibilities, epistemologies, polities, economies, legal systems and religions of the formerly colonised peoples as greenhoused and entrapped in the heat of global apartheid and neo-colonialism, the book refuses to be confined to the pufferies of physical conceptualisations of greenhousing and global warming. Underlining the supposed disposability and dispensability of colonised peoples, the notion of necroclimatism explicates ways in which some people suffer various forms of death, which have increasingly become a feature of global apartheid and neo-colonialism that are cast in spectral sacrificial logics. Deemed to constitute disposable bodies, disposable cultures, disposable polities, disposable societies, disposable epistemologies, disposable religions, disposable laws and disposable economies, the sacrificed are, in the age of climate catastrophism, once again reminded that they 'have duties to die', to become extinct in order to save the global spaceship that is sinking due to climate change and global warming. This book therefore argues that in a sacrificial world (dis)order, binaries between humans and animals, good and evil, moral and immoral, the dead and the living necessarily vanish in the nefarious logic of what marks the era of climate catastrophism and the attendant necroclimatism. The book further argues that a sacrificial world (dis)order is necessarily a posthumanist and postanthropocentric world (dis)order, which should be never granted space in African worlds and even beyond. The book thus, raises fundamental questions for African anticipatory regimes, and for this reason it is handy for scholars in political science, sociology, social anthropology, development studies, environmental studies, agricultural studies, legal studies, food science, geography, religious studies and decolonial fields of studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Fast-tracking Africa to climate apocalypse (FATACA)? An introduction to decolonising climate and weather issues / Artwell Nhemachena & Munyaradzi Mawere; title: The historiography and politicisation of droughts in colonial Africa / Takavafira Masarira Zhou; title: Climate change and the future of Africa : impacts on water resources in eastern and southern Africa / Wisdom Sibanda & Fortune Sibanda; title: Chipping and refashioning the soapstone? A symbolic re-appraisal of the colonial wresting of weather and climate control from African spirit mediums / Edmore Dube; title: Rain petitioning in African indigenous knowledge systems : insights from Ifa among the Yoruba People of Nigeria / Oluwole Tewogboye Okewande; title: Perceptions and experiences of climate change in rural Zimbabwe : the case of elderly women in Goromonzi District / Ignatius Gutsa; title: Neoimperial engineering of droughts and famine on post-colonial Zimbabwe? Knowledge systems and the politics of land repossession in Africa / Beatrice Lantern; title: Climatological anomalies, food politics and the poor in Africa / Aaron Rwodzi; title: Climate change in Zimbabwe : challenges and prospects for rural women in Bikita District / Nancy Mazuru; title: Towards an ecotheology? A postcolonial analysis of the ecological depletion at Kwenda Mission of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe / Martin Mujinga; title: Land (dis)possession and environmental destruction in Zimbabwe : a critical reflection of events since the beginning of the 21st century / Alex Munyonga; title: A benchmaking framework to boost Africa's standards to reduce emissions from the transportation sector / Semie M. Sama; title: Global warming and climate colonialism/imperialism : appraising decolonisation / Nkwazi Nkuzi Mhango; title: Moving beyond neoimperial lamentations over decolonising African Land and environments : the model of Zimbabwe as the future / Tom Tom & Clement Chipenda.