{"product_id":"african-climate-futures-9780198960744","title":"African Climate Futures","description":"\u003cem\u003eAfrican Climate Futures\u003c\/em\u003e shows how climate-changed futures are imagined in Africa and by Africans, and how these future visions shape political debates and struggles in the present. Scientific climate scenarios forecast bleak futures, with increased droughts, floods, lethal heatwaves, sea level rises, declining crop yields, and greater exposure to vector-borne diseases. Yet, African climate futures could also encompass energy transitions and socio-economic revolutions, transformed political agency and human subjectivities, and radically reparative more-than-human climate politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the heart of the book is an original and interdisciplinary approach. It studies official climate policy strategies and fictional texts side-by-side, as ecopolitical imaginaries that envision low-carbon, climate-changed futures, and narrate pathways from 'here' to 'there'. It discusses net zero strategies from Ethiopia, The Gambia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe and draws on postcolonial, feminist, and queer theory, arguing that Africanfuturist climate fiction can inspire more radical, reparative, more-than-human ecopolitical imaginaries. These stories can help us to understand the debts we all owe, imagine what reparations might entail, and explore the contours of living convivially alongside more-than-human others in heterotopian, climate-changed futures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStories can help explore how we might feel in climate-changed futures and can help us to narrate a path through them. This book uses Africanfuturist climate fiction to inspire new ways of challenging and enriching theoretical debates in global climate change politics, including how we understand the places, temporalities, ecologies, and politics of climate futures. If we want to survive to tell new stories in liveable futures then we need to urgently and radically transform carboniferous capitalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eOxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations\u003c\/em\u003e is a series for scholars \u003cbr\u003eand students working on African politics and International Relations and related \u003cbr\u003edisciplines. Volumes concentrate on contemporary developments in African political \u003cbr\u003escience, political economy, and International Relations, such as electoral politics, \u003cbr\u003edemocratization, decentralization, gender and political representation, the political \u003cbr\u003eimpact of natural resources, the dynamics and consequences of conflict, comparative \u003cbr\u003epolitical thought, and the nature of the continent's engagement with the East and \u003cbr\u003eWest. Comparative and mixed methods work is particularly encouraged. Case studies \u003cbr\u003eare welcomed but should demonstrate the broader theoretical and empirical \u003cbr\u003eimplications of the study and its wider relevance to contemporary debates. The focus \u003cbr\u003eof the series is on sub-Saharan Africa, although proposals that explain how the region \u003cbr\u003eengages with North Africa and other parts of the world are of interest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeries Editors: Nic Cheeseman (University of Birmingham), Peace Medie (University of Bristol), and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (University of Oxford). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarl Death, \u003cem\u003eSenior Lecturer in International Political Economy, University of Manchester\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarl Death is a Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Manchester. He was previously at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, and the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. His work focuses on environmental politics in Africa with a particular interest in critical and postcolonial approaches.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51834619658514,"sku":"9780198960744","price":135.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ac925caf-9957-4a85-b65f-044a0bed6b72.jpg?v=1767095384","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/african-climate-futures-9780198960744","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}