The Birth of Geopower

Islands, the Anthropocene, and Decolonisation

“…Equally, as Diran and Traisnel (2020) argue, understanding the Anthropocene as a product of capitalist production means viewing it and climate change as representational problems that assume Earth is a “stable and predictable object of knowledge” across disparate scales. For them, that consideration in turn means thinking about and acting in relation to governmental regimes of geopower as well as of biopower—on Earth and among its spaces and places as well as among living beings (see Diran and Traisnel 2019).…”