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Climate fiction can be settler colonial: Briggetta Pierrot, Nicole Seymour, ‘Contemporary Cli-Fi and Indigenous Futurisms’, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 9, 4, 2020, pp. 92-113

26Dec20

Abstract: In this essay, we survey recent prominent works of climate fiction, or cli-fi, through the lens of Indigenous futurism, arguing that several of these works pointedly absent or even appropriate Indigenous perspectives and traditions. We conclude that this genre potentially works to justify settler colonialism.

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