Fear of a Dead White Planet

<i>Fear of a Dead White Planet</i> 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 <i>Fear of a Dead White Planet</i> invites readers to recognize and conjure alternate worlds in and around the university.