Romy Opperman
Biographic Data
| ID | 412078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Romy Opperman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Romy |
| FAMILY NAME | Opperman |
| SIGNATURE | OPPERMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3088-253X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"Charles Mills's "Black Trash
The reception of the work of Charles Mills has mostly been restricted to responses to Rawls, social epistemology, and Black feminist critique. All overlook the sustained analysis of space, race, and waste, which this article argues is its most valuable contribution for critical philosophy of race today. This article claims that that in addition to "cognitive resistance," an analysis of Black trash suggests intimate ecological resistance as a fund…
The Need for a Black Feminist Climate Justice
This essay makes the case for an approach to climate justice grounded in Black feminist thought. I outline one such approach by adopting the analytic and method of Black feminist hauntology. One of my aims is to depart from the erasure of Black womxn in climate discourse and strategy, as marked either by vulnerability, abjection, and the inevitability of dispossession and death, or by astounding "resilience" in the face of repeated devastation, v…
A Permanent Struggle against an Omnipresent Death
This article contributes to recent work that has turned to Frantz Fanon for a socio-ecological approach to racism and colonization. Its intervention is to take up Fanon to critically reflect on the concept and use of “environmental racism,” one of the few approaches we have to hand to interrogate the place of race in discussions of the Anthropocene. It shows that a Fanonian approach to environmental racism integrates a socio-ecological perspectiv…
The Need for a Black Feminist Climate Justice
This essay makes the case for an approach to climate justice grounded in Black feminist thought. I outline one such approach by adopting the analytic and method of Black feminist hauntology. One of my aims is to depart from the erasure of Black womxn in climate discourse and strategy, as marked either by vulnerability, abjection, and the inevitability of dispossession and death, or by astounding "resilience" in the face of repeated devastation, v…
"Charles Mills's "Black Trash
The reception of the work of Charles Mills has mostly been restricted to responses to Rawls, social epistemology, and Black feminist critique. All overlook the sustained analysis of space, race, and waste, which this article argues is its most valuable contribution for critical philosophy of race today. This article claims that that in addition to "cognitive resistance," an analysis of Black trash suggests intimate ecological resistance as a fund…
A Permanent Struggle against an Omnipresent Death
This article contributes to recent work that has turned to Frantz Fanon for a socio-ecological approach to racism and colonization. Its intervention is to take up Fanon to critically reflect on the concept and use of “environmental racism,” one of the few approaches we have to hand to interrogate the place of race in discussions of the Anthropocene. It shows that a Fanonian approach to environmental racism integrates a socio-ecological perspectiv…
The Need for a Black Feminist Climate Justice
This essay makes the case for an approach to climate justice grounded in Black feminist thought. I outline one such approach by adopting the analytic and method of Black feminist hauntology. One of my aims is to depart from the erasure of Black womxn in climate discourse and strategy, as marked either by vulnerability, abjection, and the inevitability of dispossession and death, or by astounding "resilience" in the face of repeated devastation, v…
"Charles Mills's "Black Trash
The reception of the work of Charles Mills has mostly been restricted to responses to Rawls, social epistemology, and Black feminist critique. All overlook the sustained analysis of space, race, and waste, which this article argues is its most valuable contribution for critical philosophy of race today. This article claims that that in addition to "cognitive resistance," an analysis of Black trash suggests intimate ecological resistance as a fund…
Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (2 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (1 work) · Arms race (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Climate change (1 work)