Fear of a Dead White Planet

By More Worlds Collective More Worlds Collective More Worlds Collective, Timothy K Choy, Joseph Masco

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147802884X
• ISBN13: 9781478028840
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"