Crisis Atmospheres: Sensing Life on Alert, A Visceral Response to Timothy Luke’s Anthropocene Alerts

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Notes

¹ Timothy W. Luke, Anthropocene Alerts: Critical Theory of the Contemporary as Ecocritique (Candor, NY: Telos Press, 2019), p. 271.

² Ibid., 294.

³ Arundhati Roy, “The Pandemic as Portal,” Financial Times (April 3, 2020), available online at: https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca.

⁴ Luke, Anthropocene Alerts, p. 61.

⁵ Stefanie Fishel, The Microbial State: Global Thriving and the Body Politic (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), p. 106.

⁶ Luke, Anthropocene Alerts, p. 136.

⁷ Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019), p. 93.

⁸ Ibid., 108.

⁹ Ibid., 160.

¹⁰ Jennifer L. Lawrence and Sarah Marie Wiebe (eds), Biopolitical Disaster (New York, NY: Routledge, 2017).

¹¹ Luke, Anthropocene Alerts, pp. 65, 208.

¹² Yasmeen Serhan, “The Coronavirus’s Real and Immediate Threat to Democracy,” The Atlantic (March 12, 2020), available online at: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/03/london-mayoral-election-coronavirus-covid19/607924/.

¹³ Luke, Anthropocene Alerts, p. 185.

¹⁴ Sarah Marie Wiebe, Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canadaʻs Chemical Valley (Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2016).

¹⁵ Judith Butler, “Capitalism Has its Limits,” Verso Books (March 30, 2020), available online at: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4603-capitalism-has-its-limits.

¹⁶ Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Farah Stockman, and Sharon LaFranier, “Testing Remains Scarce as Governors Weigh Reopening States,” The New York Times (April 25, 2020), available online at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/us/politics/virus-testing-shortages-states-trump.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20200426&instance_id=17959&nl=morning-briefing&regi_id=81926201&segment_id=26000&te=1&user_id=66093555d645d88994ae4209f7d9a81c

¹⁷ Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence (New York, NY: Verso, 2020), p. 223.

¹⁸ Rodney A. Brooks, “African Americans Struggle with Disproportionate COVID Death Toll,” National Geographic (April 24, 2020), available online at: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/04/coronavirus-disproportionately-impacts-african-americans/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-e-mail::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=SpecialEdition_20200424&rid=21993DDD0A16750AAAFED3AA1F680948; Andrea González-Ramírez, “Meet the Protesters in Puerto Rico who Want More Testing,” Medium (April 22, 2020), available online at: https://gen.medium.com/meet-the-protesters-who-want-more-testing-2403f634b1a1.

¹⁹ Michael Schwirtz, “One Rich NY Hospital Got Warren Buffett’s Help. This One Got Duct Tape,” The New York Times (May 20, 2020), available online at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-university-hospital.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20200426&instance_id=17959&nl=morning-briefing&regi_id=81926201&segment_id=26000&te=1&user_id=66093555d645d88994ae4209f7d9a81c.

²⁰ Michael Wilson, “March, April, May: City’s Mood Darkens as Crisis Feels Endless,” The New York Times (June 1, 2020), available online at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-crisis.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20200426&instance_id=17959&nl=morning-briefing&regi_id=81926201&segment_id=26000&te=1&user_id=66093555d645d88994ae4209f7d9a81c.

²¹ Fishel, The Microbial State, p. 116.

²² Mbembe, Necropolitics, p. 176.

²³ Fishel, The Microbial State, p. 109.

²⁴ Fishel, p. 96.

²⁵ Luke, Anthropocene Alerts, p. 86.

²⁶ Murray Brewster, “Commander Acknowledges COVID-19 Hazards as Troops Head into Ontario Nursing Homes,” CBC News (April 29, 2020), available online at: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid19-military-seniors-1.5548072.

²⁷ Fishel, The Microbial State, p. 6.

²⁸ Kandida Purnell, “The Body Politics of Covid-19,” The Disorder of Things (April 6, 2020), available online at: https://thedisorderofthings.com/2020/04/06/the-body-politics-of-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR1PLD-lmukonqy2fd1iO93p1MLx4k5zY0zlGrEc5IDlLdbJd5Oo_jEenPI.

²⁹ Sarah Marie Wiebe, Erynne M. Gilpin, and Laurence Butet-Roch, “Reimagining Attawapiskat: Indigenous Youth Voices, Community Engagement and Mixed-Media Storytelling,” Journal of Environmental Media 1:2 (2020), pp. 145–166.

³⁰ Lisa Friedman, “What Is the Green New Deal? A Climate Proposal, Explained,” The New York Times (February 21, 2019), available online at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/climate/green-new-deal-questions-answers.html.

³¹ Nick Estes, “A Red Deal,” Jacobin (August 6, 2019), available online at: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/red-deal-green-new-deal-ecosocialism-decolonization-indigenous-resistance-environment.

³² Melanie Yazzie, “The Red Nation Launches Part Three of the Red Deal: Heal Our Planet,” The Red Nation (April 27, 2020), available online at: https://therednation.org/author/melanieyazzie/.

³³ Leah R.E. Levac and Sarah Marie Wiebe (eds) Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2020).

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Sarah Marie Wiebe

Sarah Marie Wiebe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa and incoming Assistant Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. She is the author of Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley and Co-Editor of Biopolitical Disaster with Jennifer Lawrence.