Fallout Futures

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter poses that the writing analysed in the book can be considered as a form of ideological and intellectual residue or pathogen released by the core and invading the American imagination. Just as nuclear fallout travels via the stratosphere to all parts of the planet, this ideological fallout, energised by neoliberal globalization, reaches across the globe where it is shifting human environmental concerns towards an understanding of the future as a personal, regional and/or national security concern. The aim of the final chapter is to refocus the needs of the planet as an entangled, multispecies habitat in the process of being destroyed by militarised capitalism. This chapter thus turns to climate narratives from the peripheries and semiperipheries that exist in close proximity to the US core. These, the chapter shows, register capitalism’s epochal crisis from a radically different position and, in doing so, perform important imaginative work that makes it possible to think outside of the intellectual boundaries established by capitalism and the American Climate Emergency Narrative.