eprintid: 10191375 rev_number: 9 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/19/13/75 datestamp: 2024-04-26 08:32:49 lastmod: 2024-04-26 08:32:49 status_changed: 2024-04-26 08:32:49 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Randazzo, Elisa creators_name: Richter, Hannah title: Political action in planetary times: Extinction activism, Anthropocene ontopolitics, indigenous complexities ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: J39 note: © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). abstract: This paper brings the narratives of the environmental activist groups Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil and Fridays for Future into conversation with Critical Anthropocene Theory and Indigenous environmentalism to interrogate pathways for and limits of environmental political action under planetary conditions marked by nonhuman shaping power. Critical Anthropocene Theory, the paper argues, can problematise the simplistic positivism and managerialism of the new ‘extinction activism’. However, the conversation with Indigenous environmental practices, which flexibly manage tensions within human-nonhuman relations and centre radical social impact, reveals the political limitations of both extinction activism and critical Anthropocene thinking. The paper distinguishes the logic of fast change within existing socio-political parameters, which drives extinction activism, from Critical Anthropocene Theory's focus on ontological change as a precondition for a non-exploitative environmental politics, which deprioritises activist practice. Different from both, the paper argues that Indigenous environmental activism is marked by a yet different pragmatic approach, where both modern and non-modern political means are mobilised towards radical change. Indigenous environmentalism is marked by the dynamic co-evolution of cosmology and politics and moves flexibly between modern/nonmodern boundaries, highlighting new pathways for political action in the relational Anthropocene. date: 2024-06 date_type: published publisher: Elsevier official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103107 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2270879 doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103107 lyricists_name: Randazzo, Elisa lyricists_id: ERAND36 actors_name: Randazzo, Elisa actors_id: ERAND36 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Political Geography volume: 112 article_number: 103107 issn: 0962-6298 citation: Randazzo, Elisa; Richter, Hannah; (2024) Political action in planetary times: Extinction activism, Anthropocene ontopolitics, indigenous complexities. Political Geography , 112 , Article 103107. 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103107 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103107>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10191375/1/Randazzo_1-s2.0-S0962629824000568-main.pdf