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Worlds of hope colonised? Tracking imaginations of modern sustainability in the 21st century

O'Donovan, C; Arora, S; (2021) Worlds of hope colonised? Tracking imaginations of modern sustainability in the 21st century. Presented at: 4S Annual Meeting 2021, Toronto, Canada. Green open access

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Abstract

How are collective struggles for sustainability and racial justice, underpinned by hope for other worlds on earth? How do these hopes go beyond coloniality that lies at the heart of Modernity and its variants in postcolonial societies, which are associated with climate catastrophes, losses of species and languages, and now a pandemic exacerbating inequalities? ¬ In mainstream discussions on sustainability and justice, hope for another world is colonized by socio-material change driven by ‘eco-modernist technofixes’ or the rhetoric of ‘green and inclusive capitalism’. This drive leaves unchallenged forms of ongoing coloniality that superiorise Modern worlds using categorisations of race, rationality, civilization, nationality, caste, and religion. Often it also fails to confront extractivism based on objectification of nonhuman beings and processes in ‘nature’. Contrasting hopes for other worlds go beyond climate and environmental justice for victims of Modernisation. Justice that is grounded in survivors’ quests to thrive in egalitarian coexistence. Hopes for other worlds are pluriversal, geared towards realising a world in which ‘many worlds fit’. In this paper, we attempt to mat rather than map, hopes for other worlds through multimedia archival work with movements for sustainability and decolonial justice. We find that imaginations of pluriversal alternatives past and future, foreground four connected horizons for decolonizing hope. They include transforming ways of relating: a) Beyond Nation, through communality and intercultural conviviality; b) Beyond Human, through multiplying human-nature relations of radical care; c) Beyond Science, through epistemic justice and handcrafting futures; and d) Beyond Time, through cosmologies of divergent becoming of worlds.

Type: Conference item (Presentation)
Title: Worlds of hope colonised? Tracking imaginations of modern sustainability in the 21st century
Event: 4S Annual Meeting 2021
Location: Toronto, Canada
Dates: 06 - 09 October 2021
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/ssss2...
Language: English
Keywords: Extinction Rebellion, Net Zero, innovation, science and technology studies, hope
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10136160
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