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Geontopower colonial (im)mobilites and the right to endurance
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Drawing on Elizabeth Povinelli’s concept of geontopower and Nail’s notion of kinopolitics, this article interprets climate (im)mobilities as colonial (im)mobilities and frames the climate crisis as the collapse of the conditions of endurance for forms of existence denied by colonial and extractive regimes. Geontopower functions as the ontological dispositif that sustains the endurance of the dominant Western capitalist form of existence by governing the Life/Nonlife distinction, framing Life as worthy of reproduction and Nonlife as a zone of extraction and exhaustion. By theorizing forms of existence as relational assemblages kept in form through mutual efforts of attention, the article further argues that climate crisis and migration are expressions of colonial interference — and of geontopower as its mode of governance — upon these assemblages. Migration represents both the expression of the crisis of Life/Nonlife separation and a reparative practice challenging the presumption of stasis of Western capitalism. The colonial migrant embodies this counter-movement: a demand for endurance from those whose conditions of existence have been eroded. In this frame, (im)mobility justice thus emerges not as an individual right but as a relational and distributed struggle to reconfigure movement and endurance within the collapsing geontopolitical order.
Keywords:
Geontopower
form of existence
colonialism
extractivism
(im)mobility justice
climate justice
(im)mobilities
endurance
kinopolitics
reparation
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