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Creator: Shestakova, Sasha

Title: Racial Capitalocene Binaries

Subtitle: Approaching environmental destruction in the Russian context

DOI: 10.15457/frictions/0010

Description

Interdisciplinary doctoral researcher Sasha Shestakova examines the intersections of climate change, extractivist capitalism and the destruction of indigenous cultures. Drawing on Françoise Vergès’ concept of the racial capitalocene, they trace the consequences of an oil spill and other environmental damage in Russia’s Far North on the lifeworlds of indigenous peoples. The text offers a planetary perspective, as well as querying the binary divides of human/nature and Global North/South. This contribution was shaped by discussions that emerged during the First Graduate Workshop of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Unbuilding Binaries: Exploring affective and analytical responses to binary divisions as encountered in the field, in November 2020. The event was supported by the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Europe and America”.

Date of publication: 2021-08-09

URL: https://frictions.europeamerica.de/research-notes-shestakova-racial-capitalocene-binaries-russia/

Subjects: Global North, Global South, Russia, anthropocene, capitalocene, climate change, colonialism, environment, indigenous communities, indigenous rights, unbuilding binaries

Section: Research Notes

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