Planetarity from below : decolonial ecopoetics of migration and diaspora / Emily Yu Zong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zong, Emily Yu.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Environmentalism in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Decolonization in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Decolonial ecopoetics of migration and diaspora

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2026.

Summary:

What can migrant ecologies teach us about collective planetary futures? In Planetarity from Below, Emily Yu Zong argues that modern freedom has framed migration in anthropocentric terms, neglecting that migration is also an ecological process. Analyzing a diverse body of migration literature across Australia, North America, and China, she explores how these works unlearn modern capitalist systems of property, individualism, and freedom while imagining collaborative and ecological survival from the margins. Through short stories, memoirs, speculative fiction, poetry, and documentary films, Zong unpacks a decolonial migrant ecopoetics, revealing a pluralist method of worldmaking--from Australia's oceanic refugee camps, Indigenous Canadian land, and Chinese migrant worker sweatshops, to climate futures. These migrant ecologies imagine freedom "from below" not simply as individual survival or assimilation but as an unruly and contingent process of shared creativity with animals, waters, minerals, waste, and technology. Shifting environmental ethics from individual morality to a political ecology of sustaining life in precarity, Zong introduces decolonial knowledges, imaginations, and praxes that help us expand justice and freedom beyond the human, asking how borderland subjectivities can open new possibilities for multispecies flourishing.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward a Decolonial Ecopoetics of Migration

Part I. Diasporic Unsettler Poetics

One. Unsettling Possession: Diasporic Ecologies and Ethics of Wonder

Two. Decolonizing Waters: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and the Aqueous Commons

Part II. Thick Mobility

Three. Refugee Thick Mobility: More-Than-Human Emergence at Oceanic Borders

Four. Climate Migration, Carbon Specters, and Planetarity From Below

Five. Global Excess, Planetary Deviance: Migrant Workers, Waste, and the Geo-Cyborg

Epilogue: "Sowing Seeds Within the Cracks": Diaspora as a Decolonial Praxis

Bibliography

Index.

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ISBN:

0-472-90542-2

9780472905423

OCLC:

1524306487