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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: ON SPECULATION -- 1 IMPERIAL RUBBER -- 2 HOMELAND FUTURITY -- 3 SPECULATION AND THE SPECULUM -- 4 THE CRUEL OPTIMISM OF THE ASIAN CENTURY -- 5 SALT FISH FUTURES -- Epilogue: SPECULATION AS DISCOURSE SPECULATION AS EXUBERANCE -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Runit Dome is an eighteen-inch thick concrete dome covering the buried nuclear waste from twenty-three atomic tests conducted by the US military in the 1940s and '50s in Pikinni Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Known to locals as "The Tomb," it is leaking into the Pacific Ocean, in part because of the rising sea levels produced by global warming. Runit Dome brings climate change into direct relation with the legacies of nuclear imperialism in the Marshall Islands. This essay examines how Cold War securitization paradigms problematically inform the ecological management strategies developed by international policy-making entities such as the United Nations in the mid-twentieth century. While much literary and cultural scholarship on the rise of the nuclear age has focused on the concomitant rise of insecurities about body and environment under the duress of wartime, this essay crafts a different but intertwined history, showing how the transformation of the Pacific Ocean into a nuclear testing ground was parlayed into governmental projects for the remaking of life itself under the auspices of risk management. Military-backed and government-funded scientific experiments with nuclear and other weapons throughout the Pacific suggest a new phase in US imperial world-making, as the ecologies of waters, islands, sea creatures, and Pacific Islanders were turned into experimental materials for modeling shifts in social and ecological forms of governance. When environmental protections take for granted concepts such as enclosure, risk management, and Enlightenment formulations of property-owning and rights-bearing subjects, they manifest a settler environmentalism that too easily paves the way for capitalist regeneration under the aegis of eco-development projects rather than systemic change that understands human, nonhuman, and environment to be always already in relation. To break from perpetually extractive relations to land, sea, and life, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner's video poem "Anointed" models how environmental futures must reckon with the causes of past and ongoing harm, and this essay concludes with a brief reflection on this poet-activist's work.

"Speculative Acts" examines an emergent set of late twentieth- and early twenty-first century science fictions that engage a politics of critical speculation. I position postcolonial speculative fictions--drawn from lived experiences of alienation, abduction, and displacement--as revisionist counter-narratives to imperialist science fictions of progress, technological advancement, and development. I focus on narratives emerging from regions in the Americas where imbricated labor histories and overlapping diasporic movements complicate strictly North- South or East-West frameworks. Each chapter of the dissertation pairs a reading of speculative fiction with a cultural analysis of scientific narratives. Chapter One, "Imperial Rubber, Illegal Oranges," contrasts Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990) and Tropic of Orange (1997) with scientific writings produced by geologists and tech companies hired to speculate on land and sustain cheap labor supplies on behalf of U.S. investments south of the border. My second chapter interrogates the technoracialization of futurist discourses by focusing on reproductive imperatives placed on the bodies of women of color in the apocalyptic film Children of Men. On the other hand, I understand Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber--a speculative novel haunted by the biopolitical history of African slavery and Asian indenture in the Caribbean--as a revisionist narrative that queers reproductive bodies and allocates technological power to marginalized subjects. My final chapter focuses on new media speculations on race, gender, and technology in the form of online fan fiction written primarily by women who queer popular fantastical narratives such as The Matrix. I investigate how these everyday, renegade writers seize upon unsanctioned and unofficial channels to challenge the film's techno- utopianism and globalizing aspirations. Taken together, these chapters complicate science fictions of technological progress and borderless futures. At the same time, my project emphasizes the revisionist work of writers invested in narratives that use science to imagine transnational models of resistance

What are the stakes of teaching #BlackLivesMatter simultaneously in New Hampshire and in the national media? We draw upon our experiences leading two iterations of a #BlackLivesMatter course at Dartmouth College to consider the feminist pedagogical origins of "experiential learning," the intersectional dynamics of enacting a teaching collective, and working in dialogue with the movement itself.

Frontmatter -- Keywords -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. #: micha cárdenas -- 2. Abjection -- 3. Affect -- 4. Agency -- 5. Anal -- 6. Bathroom -- 7. BDSM -- 8. Biology -- 9. Biopower -- 10. Capital -- 11. Carcerality -- 12. Care -- 13. Cis -- 14. Citizenship -- 15. Colonialism -- 16. Consent -- 17. Decolonization -- 18. Development -- 19. Deviance -- 20. Diaspora -- 21. Difference -- 22. Disability -- 23. Ecology -- 24. Education -- 25. The Erotic -- 26. Experience -- 27. Fat -- 28. Femme -- 29. Flesh -- 30. Gender -- 31. Girl -- 32. Health -- 33. Heteronormativity -- 34. Heterosexuality -- 35. Identity -- 36. Imperialism -- 37. Indigeneity -- 38. Intersectionality -- 39. Intersex -- 40. Justice -- 41. Labor -- 42. Lesbian -- 43. Masculinity -- 44. Matter -- 45. Methods -- 46. Migration -- 47. Movements -- 48. Performativity -- 49. Porn -- 50. Property -- 51. Queer -- 52. Race -- 53. Religion -- 54. Reproduction -- 55. Securitization -- 56. Settler Colonialism -- 57. Sex -- 58. Sexuality -- 59. Sex Work -- 60. Sovereignty -- 61. Space -- 62. Sports -- 63. State -- 64. Subaltern -- 65. Subjectivity -- 66. Temporality -- 67. Trans -- 68. Transnational -- 69. Two Spirit -- 70. Woman -- References -- About the Contributors