Pratt, Mary Louise
Planetary Longings (Dissident Acts)
- ISBN 13:
- 9781478018292
- author:
- Pratt, Mary Louise
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Duke University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 352
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 15.2 centimetres (0.43 kg
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Emigration & Immigration,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Planetary Longings by Mary Louise Pratt explores a pivotal moment in human and planetary history. In this thought-provoking work, Pratt examines the forces shaping our world, including modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity, as they intersect with environmental disaster and new forms of thinking. Pratt draws on 1990s Latin American vernacular culture, literary fiction, and social movements to understand how these forces have catalyzed alternative ways of knowing and living. She also analyzes the history of anticolonial struggles and Indigenous mobilizations in the Americas, revealing indigeneity as a key index of coloniality, neoliberal extraction, and ecological destruction. Ultimately, Pratt demonstrates that the changes on either side of the millennium have given rise to new forms of world-making and knowledge-making in the face of an unknowable and catastrophic future.
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