Students Create the "Keywords for Climate Imaginaries" Zine

This spring, students in the undergraduate Anthropology class “Climate Change and Colonialism” created the zine, Keywords for Climate Imaginaries. Together, the 25 short essays included in the publication make a case for why understanding colonial ruptures and continuities is essential for analyzing climate change and inequality today. The course, taught by the Center for Science and Society’s Climate Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow Dilshanie Perera, explored how colonialism in its various forms of extraction, settlement, domination, exploitation, displacement, and dispossession creates and maintains inequality globally and exacerbates the climate crisis. Students analyzed how the past intimately structures the present, how colonial processes endure, how climate is governed, and how people are already engaged in worldmaking and repair by demanding and enacting other possibilities. The essays in the zine represent a semester’s collective study, peer review, and grappling with the big questions about the shape of the contemporary world.

Read the zine for yourself! For more information about the Climate Change and Colonialism class, or for a copy of the syllabus, please contact Dilshanie Perera at [email protected].