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Podcast: In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Episode: Carl Death, "African Climate Futures" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Description: This episode is brought to you by the BISA Environment and Climate Politics Working Group.
African Climate Futures (Oxford UP, 2025) shows how climate-changed futures are imagined in Africa and by Africans, and how these future visions shape political debates and struggles in the present. Scientific climate scenarios forecast bleak futures, with increased droughts, floods, lethal heatwaves, sea level rises, declining crop yields, and greater exposure to vector-borne diseases. Yet, African climate futures could also encompass energy transitions and socio-economic revolutions, transformed political agency and human subjectivities, and radically reparative more-than-human climate politics.
At the heart of...