Fear of a Dead White Planet

Fear of a Dead White Planet asks: How does one study when the planet is on fire? The More Worlds Collective challenges the contemporary rush to planetary technofixes for environmental emergency. Instead, it tracks how such planetary-science frames are enmeshed in the longstanding projects of White Supremacy, settler colonialism, and epistemological violence. Calling for unlearning and joined-up study, the collective reclaims terraforming from off-earth engineering schemes to think through how our more modest efforts to study differently are also world-making and world-breaking. In orienting its work toward terra and formation, the collective commits to a place-based, non universal study scaled at levels both intimate and massive. Through its serious but unruly methods, Fear of a Dead White Planet invites readers to recognize and conjure alternate worlds in and around the university.

• | Author: More Worlds Collective
• | Publisher: Duke University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 31, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 00200 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 147802884X
• | ISBN-13: 9781478028840