Reyes-Carranza, Mariana;
(2023)
Racial geographies of the Anthropocene: Memory and erasure in Rio de Janeiro.
Politics
, 43
(2)
pp. 250-266.
10.1177/02633957211026470.
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Abstract
This paper interrogates the extent to which imaginaries of climate and ecological breakdown attend to the memories, knowledges, and experiences of communities already impacted by histories of racism, colonialism, and poverty. Drawing on insights from Black studies and decolonial thinking, the article reflects on how the causes and effects of anthropogenic climate change can be mapped onto geographies of racialised violence and social dispossession. Specific emphasis is given to Rio de Janeiro, notably its port area, a geographical space where future-oriented narratives remain oblivious to the city’s history of anti-Black violence and Indigenous genocide. In parallel, the paper looks at the recently built Museum of Tomorrow and its public representations of the Anthropocene. Overall, the article contends that pluralising accounts of the Anthropocene might offer alternative epistemic entry points for understanding and interrupting the mounting ecological catastrophe.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Racial geographies of the Anthropocene: Memory and erasure in Rio de Janeiro |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/02633957211026470 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957211026470 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Anthropocene, Brazil, climate change, museums, racism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204926 |
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