Planetarity from Below
Decolonial Ecopoetics of Migration and Diaspora
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2026
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
9780472077816 (ISBN)
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The decolonial knowledges, imaginations, and praxes of migrant and refugee ecopoetics
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.
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.
Emily Yu Zong is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a Decolonial Ecopoetics of Migration
Part I. Diasporic Unsettler Poetics
1. Unsettling Possession: Diasporic Ecologies and Ethics of Wonder
2. Decolonizing Waters: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and the Aqueous Commons
Part II. Thick mobility
3. Refugee Thick Mobility: More-than-Human Emergence at Oceanic Borders
4. Climate Migration, Carbon Specters, and Planetarity from Below
5. Global Excess, Planetary Deviance: Migrant Workers, Waste, and the Geo-Cyborg
Epilogue: “Sowing Seeds within the Cracks”: Diaspora as a Decolonial Praxis
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Ann Arbor |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780472077816 / 9780472077816 |
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