Earthly Encounters

<p><b>A feminist approach to the Anthropocene that recovers the relevance of sensation and phenomenology.</b></p><p><i>Earthly Encounters</i> develops a fuller account of the lived experience of racialized gender formation as it exists on this planet earth. It analyzes sensations: the chill of winter the warm embrace of the wind the feeling of being immersed in water and a stifling sense of containment. Through this analysis in settler colonial and colonial contexts in twentieth-century North America and Africa Stephanie D. Clare shows how sensation is unevenly distributed within social worlds and productive of racial national and gendered subjectivities. From revealing the relevance of phenomenology especially in the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Frantz Fanon to debates concerning new materialism and affect theory Clare shows how the phenomenology of race and gender must consider both the production of the body-subject and the environment. She concludes by making a case for the continued significance of sensation in the context of the Anthropocene.</p>