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Between Extrapolation and Speculation: Reading Octavia E. Butler in the Geography Classroom. Paper in ‘The Geographical Journal’

How can the work of prominent Black feminist speculative fiction author Octavia E. Butler enrich teaching practices aimed at fostering collective and emancipatory forms of future-making in Political and Urban Geography? Focusing on Butler's Parables…

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Take root among the stars? Emancipatory homemaking as critical worldbuilding in Octavia Butler’s Parables. Paper in ‘cultural geographies’

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In this paper, we explore strategies of emancipatory homemaking in Octavia E. Butler's Earthseed novels. We examine homemaking as a strategy, first, of persistence and, second, of adaptability. This allows us to define the home…

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‘Dwelling in disrupted worlds’ paper & ‘Critical worldbuilding in practice’ panel @SFRA ‘Disruptive Imaginations’ conference, Dresden, Aug 17 and 18, 2023

At the 2023 Sciene Fiction Research Association's and Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung's joint conference 'Disruptive Imaginations' in Dresden, I presented a paper and co-hosted a panel. Dwelling in disrupted worlds. Emancipatory home-making as critical world-building in…

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