Islands, the Anthropocene, and Decolonisation

The Anthropocene is deployed as incontrovertible fact, yet its foundations merit strong critique to challenge how particular voices and locations are absented, silenced, or enrolled in the fallacies that attend this epochal framework. Other placed, grounded, scale-sensitive explanations exist for present future state scenarios, including on islands—often focus of apocalyptic thinking. Dealing with historical contemporary struggles decolonise more powerful than engaging a reified framework part ongoing colonial-imperial excesses, uneven development, racial capitalism. This work considers four us, instigating authors, worked five others, collaborating understand academic works, activism, artistic expressions island life concerns. Our aim was learn about why their efforts prioritise decolonisation at heart what needed shore up peoples’ futures.