New book - African Climate Futures

[Carl Death]

Dear colleagues,

 

Some of you may be interested in my recently published book, African Climate Futures, which looks at how climate-changed futures are imagined in Africa and by Africans, and how these future visions shape political debates and struggles in the present.

 

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.

 

There’s an interview about the book in The Conversation and a BISA blog here. I’ve attached a flier with a discount if this helps, and there’s an OUP link to recommend this book to your institution’s librarian here.

 

All the best,

Carl

 

 

 

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Dr Carl Death, Senior Lecturer, Politics
University of Manchester

Pronouns: he/him/his

Room 4.011, School of Social Sciences, Arthur Lewis Building
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

Phone: +44 (0)161 27 54890

Email: carl....@manchester.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/carl.death/

 

Recent publications:

 

African Climate Futures (OUP, 2025) – and read an interview about the book here

Unfamiliar families and disturbing climate futures (IFJP, 2024)

Narrating transitions to low carbon futures (New Political Economy, 2024)

Has African climate fiction already shown us the future? (African Arguments, 2023)