Worlds in Collision: The Anthropocene, Ecofeminism and Testimony

Abstract

The Anthropocene has involved the  transformation of the humanities,  giving rise  to a posthuman or environmental shift within them. This shift  was a result of the need to consider the non-human realities that constitute our environment at a time when anthropogenic climate change threatens to increase the vulnerabilities of  various minorities and subalternities. Accordingly, in this text, we are  writing about worlds in collision since the Anthropocene/Capitalocene and climate change emerge as forces threatening the survival of many cosmologies and perspectives, whose understanding of the world occurs through situated experiences that are not  necessarily intertranslatable into the language of science. Our aim is therefore to articulate an ecofeminist proposal within this environmental shift that uses a set of tools from  the feminist epistemology of testimonials to theorize about  the epistemic injustices created by this era. We attempt to outline an interpretive apparatus capable of  resisting the temptation to reduce the effects of this climate crisis to an objectified list of losses while overlooking the significance these  losses have for concrete experiential positions.