Index
A
- acts of care
- social distribution of care185
- Adebayo, Mojisola121, 122, 124,
127–133, 135
- Ahed’s Knee
(Ha-Berekh) (Lapid)33, 39–40, 48–50
- Anthropocene140–142, 184,
185, 191, 193,
195; see also ecological crisis;insects;planetary commons
- Anthropocene fictions183, 186, 188
- Anthropocenic commons191, 192
- apocalypse.See ecological crisis;insects
- archives.see also Adebayo, Mojisola;Marasela, Senzeni;Ngaba, Buhle;Putuma, Koleka
- as activist practice121, 126
- exclusion and erasure10, 120–121, 124–125, 126
- narratives of identity, belonging, and power120
- place of community memory120
- rupturing the commons10, 121
- theoretical frameworks120–121, 135
- ’whitestream’ archive122, 124, 128
- Arendt, Hannah40n20, 78n13
- Arseneault, Jesse10–11, 123
- association.see also Portrait with Keys
- associative practice57–59, 61, 62–64, 65, 72, 209
- associative processes, neurological58n10, 62
- creating commons through59
- social dreaming matrix and64
- society and social power understood through60–61
- Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha44–46, 48
B
- Baartman, Sarah (Saartjie)133
- Benjamin, Walter66, 78n13
- Berlant, Lauren24n44, 183–185, 189, 194
- The Blue Marble photograph226–228, 227
- bodies.See Black bodies;human bodies
- Bronstein Aparicio, Eitan41, 42
- Burnt Shadows (Shamsie)
- cosmopolitanism9, 17, 26,
28–30, 31
- risk awareness and prevention8–9, 16–17, 18, 20, 22, 26–27
- risk mitigation as responsibility20–23, 25–26, 28, 29
- risk mitigation as self-serving20–22, 28–29
- ruptured transnational spaces23
- rupture of human bodies and boundaries22
C
- Calais Jungle.See Jungle refugee camp
- capitalism.see also colonialism;Dying for Gold;insects;Lapid, Nadav;mining;racism
- commons and2–3, 24n44, 121
- racial capitalism3, 5, 121,
130, 132, 159
- rupturing effects of121, 163–164
- temporally and spatially specific1
- Centre for Environmental Rights162
- climate change5, 16, 185,
191; see also ecological crisis
- Coccia, Emmanuele186, 200
- The Cockroach Dance (Mwangi)10–11, 147–150, 156
- collective identity34, 37; see also identity;Lapid, Nadav
- colonialism.see also capitalism;decolonization;Dying for Gold;ecological crisis;Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking;insects;Irmina;Israel;mining;Portrait with Keys;racism
- citizenship as tool of44n38
- European Convention of Human Rights123
- in European memory102–103
- fiction of settler ownership154–155
- Holocaust and102–103, 115
- imperialism44, 45, 107–108
- rupturing spaces and community59, 121
- settler colonialism43–45, 80
- weaponization of the commons2, 3
- comedy (genre)188–190; see also tragedy (genre)
- comics77–78, 84,
104; see also Irmina;refugee comics;Threads
- commoning
- as doomed project9, 37–38
- practice of7–8, 101, 115, 117
- commons.see also Anthropocenic commons;archives;collective identity;commoning;cosmopolitanism;Israel;literary commons;maternal commons;memory commons;planetary commons;refugee camps;respiratory commons;rupture;theatre;the human;tragedy of the commons parable;transhistorical commons;translocal commons
- capitalism and2–3, 24n44, 121
- classifying and othering discourses19–20
- cognitive dissonance of123
- community and59, 73, 129–130, 136, 214, 222, 229
- exclusion and expulsion119
- feminist and Indigenous approaches to207, 213, 221–222
- love powering and constituting206
- memory commons102, 113, 115
- reciprocal relations and consumption151–152
- redistributive justice217
- reproductive principle213–214
- structure of political subjectivity184
- sustaining livelihoods and natural resources207
- theoretical frameworks1–2, 3–5, 6–7
- tools for analysis and critique8
- undercommons10, 121–122, 124, 129, 134
- cosmopolitanism17, 23–24, 29, 30; see also Burnt Shadows
D
- Dangarembga, Tsitsi10–11, 126,
150–153, 156; see also insects
- decolonization
- decolonial aesthetics of142, 153, 155
- decolonial atmospheric reckoning161, 166, 170,
175–176
- Holocaust memory and other histories103–104
- theoretical frameworks216–217
- time, space, and subjectivity216
- decolonizing the commons.See Adebayo, Mojisola;Marasela, Senzeni;Ngaba, Buhle;Putuma, Koleka
- Deleuze, Gilles206, 207–208, 209, 214, 220
- Derrida, Jacques120–121, 150
- Dimock, Wai Chee184, 189, 201
- dissidents.See Lapid, Nadav
- Douglas, Mary18–20, 21–22, 27–28
- Dying for Gold (Meyburgh and Pakleppa).see also Black bodies;mining;respiratory commons;South African respiratory crisis
- as activist counter-history11, 167, 175–176
- capitalism and colonialism170–174, 174
- closure of African commons171, 172–173
- decolonial atmospheric reckoning161, 166, 170,
175–176
- mining as genocide166–167
- phytochemistry and respiratory health165, 170–171
- politics of respiration11, 166, 169–170, 171, 173
- struggles over breathable air164, 175
- Winkelhaak Gold Mine Compound175, 176
E
- Earthrise photograph227, 228
- ecological crisis.see also climate change;insects;The Living Sea of Waking Dreams;mining;motherhood;planetary commons;respiratory commons;South African respiratory crisis
- apocalyptic narratives140–141
- colonialism and slavery132, 141
- eco-anxiety and ecophobia188–189
- ecological politics187–188
- environmental violence161–163
- Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone162–163
- narratives and140–141, 183–184, 188–190
- racial capitalist exploitation132
- environment.See climate change;ecological crisis;gender
- environmental racism.See Dying for Gold;mining;South African respiratory crisis
- escape, theorizing of48, 50; see also Israel;Lapid, Nadav
- Espiritu, Yến Lê10, 77, 80–82, 88
- Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking
- collaboration with Rudakoff218–219
- decolonizing the commons207–208
- Deleuzian idea of the fold215–216, 220, 221
- making community and human autonomy217
- refugee migrant experience211, 219–220, 221
- reproductive principle of the commons213–214
- shoes209–210, 212–213, 215–216, 221
F
- Federici, Silvia24n44, 207, 213,
229
- feminism.See commons;ecofeminism;white feminism
- Flanagan, Richard.See The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
- Fleishman, Mark210–211, 219,
221
- Foster, John Bellamy167n32
- Fotaki, Marianna4, 6, 229
G
- gender.see also heteropatriarchy;motherhood
- concept of the human as gendered119–120
- consumption’s gendered forms151–152
- the environment and186–187, 188
- gendered limitations of commons11
- patriarchy and violence151–152, 186
- women and nonhuman nature186
- global commons.See cosmopolitanism;Shamsie, Kamila
H
- Hardin, Garrett1–5, 24n44,
35, 50n54, 182–183, 229
- Heise, Ursula163, 166, 183,
186, 188, 226
- heteropatriarchy121, 125, 134
- Holocaust102–104, 115,
199
- Hottentot Venus.See Baartman, Sarah (Saartjie)
- Hullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come In (Putuma)124, 125–126
- the human.see also gender
- definitions of119–120, 122–124
- negotiation between categories195
- women and nonhuman nature186
- human bodies.see also Black bodies;Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking;Magnet Theatre;South African respiratory crisis;The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
- breath and breathlessness160
- dehumanizing Black bodies133–134
- Deleuze’s theorization of207–208
- as object of social engineering194–195
- risk articulated through and on22
- as sociocultural or political body22
- Hutchison, Yvette209, 220
I
- imperialism44, 45, 105–108, 107, 114; see also colonialism;Irmina
- Indigenous peoples2, 3; see also commons
- insects.see also ecological crisis;The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
- as anticolonial forces144
- apocalyptic narrative of142–143
- The Cockroach Dance (Mwangi)10–11, 147–150, 156
- cockroaches142, 148, 149,
152, 156
- coinhabiting planetary commons153
- colonialism and10–11, 141, 145–147
- decolonial aesthetics of142, 153, 155
- ecological imperialism145–146
- as figures of sympoiesis142, 146
- humans as pests145–146, 147, 153–154, 192
- Kare Kare Zvako (Dangarembga)10–11, 150–153, 156
- narratives of banishment142, 145–146
- pestiferous mobilities142, 144, 145,
148, 150
- pestilence naming the eliminable143, 145
- re-storyation of pests142–143
- rupturing boundaries143–144
- termites150, 152–153, 154, 155–156
- Irmina (Yelin)
- anticolonial and postcolonial perspectives in113–114
- British Museum105, 107, 107–108
- colonialism in European shared past10, 102, 103,
113
- hegemonic memory-keeping disrupted101, 109–110, 116, 116–117
- imperialism depicted in105–107, 107,
114
- ’klack klack klack’ sound111–113, 112
- memory commons created in113, 115
- practice of commoning115, 117
- racism depicted in104–105, 106,
108–109
- transnational and multidirectional history104, 109–111, 112, 113, 115–116
- white supremacy depicted in105
- Israel.see also Lapid, Nadav
- commons constructed through exclusion41–46
- emigration as moral failing43
- escape from collective social order34–35, 41, 42–44, 46
- isolation vs commons50–51
- October 7, 2023, Hamas attack34n5, 51n56
- political left’s diminishment36n10, 41–42
- religio- and ethno-nationalist identity43–45
- as settler-colonial state43–45
J
- Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman143
- Johannesburg, South Africa60, 65, 68,
69, 73; see also Portrait with Keys
- Johansen, Emily17, 23, 29
- Jungle refugee camp, Calais, France.see also Threads
- effacement and destruction of83, 92
- rupturing landscape of France81
- as small commons75–76, 77, 81
K
- Kare Kare Zvako (Dangarembga)10–11, 150–153, 156
- Kelly, Kristine9, 209, 222
- Kimmerer, Robin Wall142, 163
- The Kindergarten Teacher
(Ha-Ganenet) (Lapid)37–38, 47,
51
- Kleinhans, Belinda105, 109
- Knittelfelder, Elisabeth10
- Kraenzle, Christina104, 109
L
- Lapid, Nadav.see also Israel
- capitalism in films of38, 39
- comic irony of films of35, 36–37, 46, 47, 48
- compulsory collective identity34
- dissident figure in films of35, 38–39
- escape from collective social order9, 34–35, 36, 38–41, 42–43, 46, 48–50
- French New Wave cinema and46–48
- Israeliness explored in films9, 33–34
- paternalistic power of the nation35
- political alignment of films of36–37
- Ahed’s Knee
(Ha-Berekh),33, 39–40, 48–50
- The Kindergarten Teacher
(Ha-Ganenet),37–38, 47, 51
- The Policeman
(Ha-Shoter),33, 39
- Synonyms
(Synonymes),34, 37n11, 40,
42–43, 46, 48, 51
- literary commons182–183, 184,
188–190; see also The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
- The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Flanagan)
- The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Flanagan)
- Anthropocenic commons191, 192
- biopolitics of192–195, 196, 199–1201
- challenging literary history as cultural commons185, 190
- cultural memory of enclosures191
- environmental collapse and rupture191, 196–197
- gendered limitations of commons11
- language manifesting entropy190–194
- mother trope185, 191, 192,
195, 197–198
- satire in11, 185, 190,
191, 193, 194–195, 198–199
- social ruptures of visceral bonds197–198
- vanishing human bodies192–194
M
- Magnet Theatre.see also Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking
- bodies and movement209–210, 215, 217
- making meaning imaginatively209–210
- non-literary, non-standard form of plays221
- performance practices208–209
- rupturing what apartheid imprisoned11–12, 210
- Make, Mmadi (Soliman, Angelo)133–134
- Mandalaki, Emmanouela4, 6, 229
- Mandela, Winnie Madikizela126
- Marasela, Senzeni
- acts of care for Black bodies133
- challenging the archive124, 132
- ’Sarah Baartman Redressed,’133
- storytelling through needlework133
- maternal commons186; see also motherhood
- Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa144, 145
- Mbembe, Achille68–69, 120–121, 135, 206, 208–209, 216–218
- Mehta, Suhaan Kiran27, 30
- Meyburgh, Catherine.See Dying for Gold
- mining.see also Dying for Gold;respiratory commons;South African respiratory crisis
- Chamber of Mines166, 169–170
- extractive colonialism161, 168–169
- Native Recruiting Corporation171–172
- racialized dispossession160
- rupturing the commons159, 160, 161
- Morris, Rosalind166n30, 168
- motherhood185–187, 188,
191, 192; see also The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
- Moy of the Antarctic (Adebayo)127–132
- Murphy, Michelle165, 166n28
- Mwangi, Meja10–11, 147–150, 156; see also insects
N
- Nash, Jonathan9–10, 58,
209, 222
- nationalism.see also Irmina;Israel
- Ngaba, Buhle121, 124, 132,
133, 134–135
- Nixon, Rob4–5, 50n54,
183
O
- O’Loughlin, Liam24, 29, 30
- Osborne, Deirdre122, 128, 132
- othering
- blackface vs whiteface130–131
- classifying and othering discourses19–20
- eating and otherness150–151
- empathy across borders of otherness212
P
- Pakleppa, Richard.See Dying for Gold
- pesticides143, 145, 155; see also insects
- pestilence143, 144; see also insects
- Planche, Jill11–12, 26n52,
58, 136
- planetary commons.see also ecological crisis;insects;The Living Sea of Waking Dreams;motherhood;respiratory commons
- The Blue Marble photograph226–228, 227
- Earthrise photograph227, 228
- environmental subjectivity184
- Gaia and motherhood186–187
- genre as cultural filter184
- narratives and140–141, 145
- The Policeman
(Ha-Shoter) (Lapid)33, 39
- Portrait with Keys (Vladislavić)
- apartheid experienced in9, 68, 69,
70–72
- associative practice in57–60, 62–63, 64, 69
- city as multi-linear text56, 60, 69–70
- city as unstable collection65
- colonialism experienced in63, 68
- inhabiting Johannesburg associatively60, 63–64, 70–71, 72
- Johannesburg as ruptured commons9, 73
- social and racial roles spatially constructed67
- spatial organization of59–60
- walking as multi-leveled and deviant9, 67, 69–71
- walkways in66, 67–68, 69–71, 72
- prisoner’s dilemma35, 36, 50
- Putuma, Koleka
- archival exclusion and erasure121, 125, 126
- Black womxn, reinscribing and bearing witness to125–127
- challenging the archive124–125, 126, 127
- dehumanization of Black bodies133
- Hullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come In,124, 125–126
R
- racism.see also capitalism;insects;Irmina;Johannesburg, South Africa;Portrait with Keys;segregation;South African respiratory crisis;the human;white feminism;white supremacy
- Anthropocene and ecological crisis141
- apartheid11–12, 60, 63, 68–69, 71, 210
- blackface vs whiteface130–131
- capitalism and existential commons2–3
- exclusionary definitions of the human122
- refugee camps.see also Jungle refugee camp;Threads
- abandonment79, 80, 82,
92–93
- as lifeworlds10, 77, 81–82, 88
- refugee processing centres (open camps)81
- theoretical frameworks78–81
- white supremacy and settler colonialism of80
- refugee comics76–77, 83; see also Threads
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Hamid)17–18
- respiratory commons.see also Dying for Gold
- responsibility, communal responsibility24n44; see also Burnt Shadows
- re-storyation.See insects
- Reznek, Jennie204–205, 210,
212, 222; see also Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking
- risk18–20, 21–22, 23, 30–31; see also 9/11 fiction;Burnt Shadows
- Rothberg, Michael103–104, 114
S
- Sand, Shlomo43–44, 45,
46, 48
- Sandilands, Catriona187, 195
- Scott, Robert Falcon130–131
- segregation59; see also racism;refugee camps
- settler colonialism.See colonialism
- Shamsie, Kamila17, 23, 24,
29n66; see also Burnt Shadows
- Singh, Julietta146, 148, 155
- Soliman, Angelo (Mmadi Make)133–134
- South Africa.See Dying for Gold;Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking;Johannesburg;Magnet Theatre;mining;Portrait with Keys;racism
- South African respiratory crisis.see also Dying for Gold;mining;respiratory commons
- extractive industries11, 159, 175
- laws protecting miners unenforced166–167
- space.see also place;Portrait with Keys;Threads
- colonial oppression rupturing59
- liminal and interstitial spaces65, 66, 72–73
- notion of conatus,206–207, 215
- public, community space58, 59
- ruptures as loci of common space65
- social and racial roles in67
- walking and city space64–65
- Synonyms
(Synonymes) (Lapid)34, 37n11, 40,
42–43, 46,
48, 51
T
- theatre.see also Adebayo, Mojisola;Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking;Magnet Theatre;Putuma, Koleka
- African diasporic aesthetic129–130
- personal and social engagement210–211
- shifting from effect to affect212
- theoretical frameworks207–208
- Threads (Evans).see also Jungle refugee camp
- border construction and meaning86–88, 89–90
- counterinscription in84–85, 89, 92–93, 94
- Jungle as refugee lifeword84, 90, 91
- Jungle transforming from non-place to place81, 90–91, 92
- lacework in gutter77, 84, 85,
88, 92–93, 94, 95
- lacework/threads metaphor and motif9, 85–86, 87–88, 91–92
- reader as co-creator of narrative88–89
- refugee camp as commons77
- refugees as doers10, 82, 90,
92
- rupture and destruction of Jungle92
- Trabelsi-Hadad, Tamar41n22
- tragedy (genre)4–6, 11,
182–183, 188–190, 195; see also comedy (genre);literary commons
- tragedy of the commons parable1, 24n44, 35–36, 182–183, 227
- trans-corporeality165; see also human bodies
- transhistorical commons45
- transnational fiction17–18, 17n5,
29; see also 9/11 fiction;Burnt Shadows;Irmina
- Tremblay, Jean-Thomas165–166, 170
V
- Vilakazi, Benedict Wallet168–169
- Vladislavić, Ivan56; see also Portrait with Keys
- Volcano, Del LaGrace130, 135
- Vukani Environmental Justice161–162
W
- Walcott, Rinaldo122, 123, 124
- walking64–65; see also Portrait with Keys
- white feminism, limitations of108
- white supremacy3, 80, 125–126, 129; see also Adebayo, Mojisola;capitalism;Irmina;racism
- Whyte, Kyle Powys141, 185
- Wynter, Sylvia120, 122–123, 124
Y
- Yelin, Barbara.See Irmina
- Yusoff, Kathryn141, 184, 193