Dustin Crowley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dustin Crowley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dustin |
| FAMILY NAME | Crowley |
| SIGNATURE | CROWLEY D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Binti ’s R/evolutionary Cosmopolitan Ecologies
Okorafor’s Binti series consistently blurs the lines between human and other-than-human, between technological and natural/spiritual, between local and global in ways that refuse to extract or abstract humans from their entanglements with environments and others, writ large and small. Set in a post–climate change Africa embroiled in regional and interstellar conflict, the narratives’ cosmopolitics are unrelentingly ecological, involving nonhuman …
Cosmos and Polis
While much work on postcolonial and African sf centers on temporality and possible futures, this article argues for a consideration of the geographic imaginary as well. Using Nnedi Okorafor's recent works Lagoon (2014) and the Binti series (2015-2018), it examines issues of space and place in the texts, especially how the use of a cosmological scale allows for a utopian rethinking of belonging, identity, and who counts as “alien.” In particular, …
How Did They Come to This
In a comparison of three recent novels, this article examines representations of migration within the "new African diaspora" that explore divergent experiences within that global space. In particular, it argues that the "Afropolitanism" held up in two of the novels as an emerging avenue of African agency to transcend the strictures of nationalism in fact represents a position of privilege granted within the framework of nation-state power. By put…
How Did They Come to This
In a comparison of three recent novels, this article examines representations of migration within the "new African diaspora" that explore divergent experiences within that global space. In particular, it argues that the "Afropolitanism" held up in two of the novels as an emerging avenue of African agency to transcend the strictures of nationalism in fact represents a position of privilege granted within the framework of nation-state power. By put…
Cosmos and Polis
While much work on postcolonial and African sf centers on temporality and possible futures, this article argues for a consideration of the geographic imaginary as well. Using Nnedi Okorafor's recent works Lagoon (2014) and the Binti series (2015-2018), it examines issues of space and place in the texts, especially how the use of a cosmological scale allows for a utopian rethinking of belonging, identity, and who counts as “alien.” In particular, …
How Did They Come to This
In a comparison of three recent novels, this article examines representations of migration within the "new African diaspora" that explore divergent experiences within that global space. In particular, it argues that the "Afropolitanism" held up in two of the novels as an emerging avenue of African agency to transcend the strictures of nationalism in fact represents a position of privilege granted within the framework of nation-state power. By put…
Binti ’s R/evolutionary Cosmopolitan Ecologies
Okorafor’s Binti series consistently blurs the lines between human and other-than-human, between technological and natural/spiritual, between local and global in ways that refuse to extract or abstract humans from their entanglements with environments and others, writ large and small. Set in a post–climate change Africa embroiled in regional and interstellar conflict, the narratives’ cosmopolitics are unrelentingly ecological, involving nonhuman …
Cosmos and Polis
While much work on postcolonial and African sf centers on temporality and possible futures, this article argues for a consideration of the geographic imaginary as well. Using Nnedi Okorafor's recent works Lagoon (2014) and the Binti series (2015-2018), it examines issues of space and place in the texts, especially how the use of a cosmological scale allows for a utopian rethinking of belonging, identity, and who counts as “alien.” In particular, …
Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Space (punctuation) (2 works)