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.... The planetary imagination is a developed as a concept that connects place and planets. place planetary science planetary imagination planet ...

... Pacific Ocean and its alluring ring of volcanic formations links this “Rim” into a common planetary future and becoming-capitalist urban formation. Islands in such a calculus hardly signal any strong difference from the mainland, even as they are (by archipelagic ties) attached to as oceanic appendices...

... this “Rim” into a common planetary future and becoming-capitalist urban formation. Islands in such a calculus hardly signal any strong difference from the mainland, even as they are (by archipelagic ties) attached to as oceanic appendices. Conceiving the Pacific Rim as a transcultural region of imagined...

... and contest. A Pacific becoming Oceania projects transpacific cross-border unity and possibility of transnational solidarity to deal with this crisis of oceanic and atmospheric belonging. Ocean commons, figured as biospheric element necessary to sustaining life and planetary health, can build up tactics...

... Chapter 2, like chapter 1, probes the Martian imagination but this time following the work of a research group at NASA that is responsible for producing the highest resolution maps of Mars for both scientific and public consumption. As no map is a neutral representation, following the work...

...Of Parasites and Contracts This chapter lays out a path for imagining an anthropology of the natural contract. It does so by staging a conversation between Michel Serres’s writings on parasites and symbiotic ontologies and anthropological theories of exchange and by exploring the complex...

.... As an empirical method of understanding the geophysical dimensions of colonialism and its afterlives, how the surfaces of the white supremacy of matter are maintained, practiced, and imagined is exposed, mapping sites for its dismantling. This lays the groundwork for an understanding of geology as racializing...

... This chapter argues that a spatial paradigm shift that occurred in the 1940s, imagining a break with the long-accepted Mercator projection, had a significant bearing on the African American planetary imaginary. Mercator’s map rapidly lost its narrative power during World War II. Instead...

... of America in terms of five modes of archipelagicity. The aim is to imagine the United States of America as an archipelago to unsettle overpowering discourses of continentalism, give shape to other and different ontologies, epistemes, and values, and reorder how one might imagine both the idea...

...Islands of Resistance This chapter argues that a spatial paradigm shift that occurred in the 1940s, imagining a break with the long-accepted Mercator projection, had a significant bearing on the African American planetary imaginary. Mercator’s map rapidly lost its narrative power during World...

... Rim” needs to conjure and contest. A Pacific becoming Oceania projects transpacific cross-border unity and possibility of transnational solidarity to deal with this crisis of oceanic and atmospheric belonging. Ocean commons, figured as biospheric element necessary to sustaining life and planetary...