Climate and culture have always been a continuum shaping civilization. The #ccnetworkberlin goes here d'accord with the British cultural geographer #MikeHulme - Where climate there culture. Today we naturally think with him #ClimateCulture or #ClimateCultures in the mode of crisis and we see this formula - Where #ClimateChange there #CulturalChange.
Culture change in the mode of climate crisis also transforms conceptualizations in the mode of a global scale - #Anthropocene #Capitalocene in the wake of #NaomiKlein for instance or #Chtulucene in the intellectual footprints of #DonnaHarraway and some more. With the #ClimateCulturesFestival, CCnetwork berlin tries to develop multiple perspectives on the globality of climate change in the long run. It emerges bottom up and at its best complementary to the scientific apparatus, it emerges in the mode of direct concern and from local perspectives. In this sense, we are grateful for a new discovery from the Caribbean - #plantagenocene.
In 2022 we invited Caribbean filmmakers, authors and activists #EstherFigueroa and #ImaniTafari-Ama to enlighten us on how #plantagenocene is understood in the historical context of the #BlackAtlantic. I'll try it in my own formulation, summarized in terms of content, though de facto it will take decades more of research to understand and politically come to terms with the story:
- The deportation of African people by the millions and their enslavement by whites for the purpose of capitalist profit maximization over 4 centuries represents an inescapable origin story of today's crisis. The collective trauma of Black Atlantic cultures is inextricably inscribed in this origin of globalized capitalism.
We are clear that this is an emancipatory act of Black historiography. But equally, that it challenges a revision of white historiography. I found on this instance of #mastodon just recently a reference to an article in the #Guardian describing how Richard Drax, a senior British MP and also super-rich heir to one of Barbados' biggest exploiting families, is currently being dragged into a reparations case.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/26/barbados-tory-mp-pay-reparations-family-slave-richard-drax-caribbean-sugar-plantation

We understand our climate-cultural engagement to be fundamentally open to the long-term strategies of the global reparations movement, even in the context of #ClimateJustice and #JustTransition
https://caricomreparations.org/the-global-reparations-movement/ and are grateful for the deepening of our climate-cultural crisis perspectives from this historically weighty site. Dr. Esther Figueroa and Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama also come back to speak on our festival website for this reason.
We allow here a certain sustainability of important concepts and terminologies of our #ClimateCulturesTheorieDesign in the core statements of the climatic subjects, as we can perceive them for the first time in an open but purposefully developed framework. More videos on the overall climate culture context of #GlobalSouth will follow.

As part 2 of the review of the Caribbean focus, #ImaniTafari-Ama, following on #EstherFigueroa, talks about the sustainable culture of Rastafari under the aspect of #livity. This form and idea of Caribbean sustainability denotes a conscious counter-conceptualization of collective identity beyond the victim story, a way out of trauma. In this context, Dr. Tafari-Ama also traced a tragic global relationship between primal accumulation and enslavement, increased productivity and the trash of our times. Livity leads directly to the theme of #plastic in the film she conceived for the festival. And we found this theme, without having looked for it directly, in many other contributions to the festival.

https://www.climate-cultures-festival.de/blog.html

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