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...Stuart Earle Strange Abstract This article describes Maroon anti-necropolitics and its implications for multispecies justice to aid in creating a genuinely decolonial Caribbean ecological theory. Ndyuka Maroons, the descendants of one nation of self-liberated formerly enslaved Black Surinamese...

... Maraú village—still held enslaved people, but many were marooned and some born free. Toward the end of the slavery era, social norms had shifted to allow enslaved people to work for wages, shared with their enslaver. João de Deus himself would have been around twenty-one when the factory started...

... by Andreas Malm in a 2018 paper titled “In Wildness Lies the Liberation of the World: On Maroon Ecology and Partisan Nature.” Paradoxically, in suggesting that fugitive slaves’ experiences of “wild” spaces can point to a Marxist theory of wilderness, Malm ignores the concerns of Maroons and Indigenous...

.... The transformative potentiality of fungi plays a critical role in the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier’s fictionalization of the Haitian Revolution. Published in 1949, The Kingdom of This World ( El reino de este mundo ) dramatizes the life of the slave-turned-maroon Makandal, who is believed to have poisoned Creole...

... history and environmental history by putting Caribbean ecology and Maroon experience at the heart of Plantationocene history. 5 These perspectives challenge the environmental humanities. They have helped push the field’s appreciation of the multiple ways humans and nonhumans relate. But they must...

... . Thomas Deborah A. “ Time and the Otherwise: Plantations, Garrisons, and Being Human in the Caribbean .” Anthropological Theory 16 , nos. 2–3 ( 2016 ): 177 – 200 . Thompson Alvin O. Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas . Kingston, Jamaica : University...

... these processes are historically contingent choices based in what society has chosen to value. The second part is a short reflection by Cariou on his practice and how he theorizes hope in the context of pollution. In the next article, “Marooned: The Case of João de Deus and the Abandoned Drilling Machine...

.... To contest the dominance of Smokers, we might need to go off the deep end. Here, we might imagine a kind of marooned collective taking shape, like the kind that Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker describe in The Many-Headed Hydra , a monograph tracing how the myth of Hercules versus the hydra was mapped...

... echoed by Andreas Malm in his consideration of the relationship between wild places and liberation, explored through the cases of maroon societies and anti-fascist partisans. 78 Attempts to escape the grasp of binaries, without becoming ignorant of materiality, have been forwarded by anthropologists...

... of humanity comes about from the destruction of the feminine. 64 The mothers of posthumanity are six “Kanka-bono” girls, the last remnants of a native tribe from the Ecuadorian rainforest driven to extinction by “the encroachments of civilization.” 65 Marooned on the island, a high school biology...

... that a space shuttle could touch down on it in an emergency. The end of the world is an accepted fact, and Easter Island is a case in point with its chain of unfortunate events that led to self-destruction; a lemming marooned in the calm of the ocean. 25 A case in point: here seems to be another...

... for immortality on things, marooning them on static islands; and then, frequently enough, we condemn them as pollutants. Why are the fixed smiles on Barbie Dolls and Fisher Price toys so pathetic?” 29 In order to revoke this curse we have cast in plastic, Hillman turns to incantation: “unthou unbride...

... in Pelargonium leaves mean that they are often very aromatic. The leaves are heart-shaped, gently wrinkled at the margins, and pubescent (see fig. 4 ). The flowers are born in terminal umbels, and they range in color from dark red to maroon to almost black in color, with the characteristic, five-petal...

... within because it is a body not unlike our own. In Butler’s words, Fowler is the affectionate machine-tickling aphid marooned on an island alongside other species better equipped to survive than himself. On the South Island of New Zealand, where Butler had experienced his own abandonment...