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An interview with the Fiji-based poet and philosopher Sudesh Mishra about indigenous cosmologies as sources of inspiration vis-à-vis environmental havoc.
Interview with tobias c. van Veen about the possibility of exo-planetary politics and Afrofuturism in the context of current conversations about climate change.
An interview with human geographer Anja Kanngieser about her research on the populations and environments of Pacific islands such as Nauru that will be wiped out by sea-level rise resulting from climate change.
An Interview with philosopher Déborah Danowski about the ends of the world as an opportunity and the problem that “there are too few people with too much world, and too many people with way too little”.
Many responses to climate change go hand in hand with revitalizing the idea that "the West is the universal norm". How can we (in "the West") become attuned to other conversations on global warming and other forms of communal rationality that can guide us out of the climate crisis? In this MORE WORLD interview, the South Sudanese-American policy consultant Abiol Lual Deng is looking for answers.
The 'ever less' logics of austerity and right-wing populism are shrinking access to the world – be it at the level of existential resources, social connections or discoursive space. The MORE WORLD initiative intends to counter this trend. In this interview the postcolonial scholar Kerry Bystrom argues against 'world shrinkage' by turning to the silenced realities of the South Atlantic.