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The palace of Kano, Nigeria historically housed hundreds of concubines whose influence has been largely overlooked. In Concubines and Power, Heidi J. Nast demonstrates how human-geographical methods can tell us about a place bereft of archaeological work or primary sources. Social forces undoubtedly shaped concubinage, but Nast shows how the womens reach extended beyond the palace walls to the formation of the state itself

Part of a 2002 panel debate on a book by Joanne P. Sharp, Condensing the Cold War: Reader's Digest and American Identity (2000). This book is commended for offering a methodology by which to analyze how "representational projects" are used in the creation of hegemony & hegemonic institutions of knowledge. Sharp's acknowledged debt to psychoanalytical theory is examined in depth, particularly her reliance on the Self-Other dichotomy in explaining identity. It is suggested that Sharp's perspective could be broadened to more fully incorporate the psychoanalytic perspective in analyzing "the infantile & the familial in the sociospatial context of the home &, by metaphorical extension, the nation." The application of this approach to an analysis of American fears about communism during the Cold War era is demonstrated, using Oedipal constructs to describe how anxieties about the family transfer to those about the nation-state & transnational scene. 1 Figure. K. Hyatt Stewart

Introduction -- I. Relational ontology, death, and the maternal -- Part One. The maternal ≠ {Mother + Child}: Relational ontology and the mattering of Black lives (Planetary pasts) -- Part two: The maternal ≠ {Mother + Child}: Relational ontology and the mattering of Black lives (Planetary futures) -- The BlackSpace Manifesto: 'Living' Black liberatory futures -- Remaindered Commons: Notes towards post-socialist futures in China vis-à-vis the Black Outdoors -- The necromancy of derivative violence: Finance capitalism, planetary pandemics, and speculative wagers on death in the Anthropocene -- II. How I Got Over: On Black Tomorrows -- "Symbols AND systems!" The Take 'Em Down, NOLA's decolonial approach to memory work" -- Rewriting the world: Climate fiction, Black future-space making, and the speculative project of justice -- Critical engagement into GIS methods while wrestling with slavery's archive -- III. Sovereignty in the Capitalocene as the crucible of difference in the post-Anthropocene -- Algorithmic finance and the anthropogenic environmental crisis in "accelerando": Science of finance capital as catalyst of climate change -- The Tourismocene: Barcelona, overtourism, and the spatial futures of the polis -- Environmental futures and urbanity entangled in nuclear legacies in the Baltic Sea coastal towns of Paldiski and Sillamäe -- Transmotion in the folkhem: Automobility, epistemicide, and the post-Anthropocene -- IV Speculative futures as a lens for "staying human in the cataclysm." -- But that's just mad! Reading the utopian impulse in Dark princess and Black empire -- Troubling the anthropos in the post-Anthropocene: Liu Cixin's Three-Body trilogy -- Smart and cruel. Cities in the thrall of artificial intelligence in the fiction of William Gibson and Cory Doctorow.

Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written by leading historians, anthropologists, and archeologists, these lively essays take us from Mayan states to twentieth-century Benin in Nigeria, to the palace of Japanese Shoguns, the Chinese Imperial courts, eighteenth-century Versailles, Mughal India, and beyond. Together they investigate how women's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the structures of power and societies in which they lived. This work also furthers our understanding of how royal courts, created to project the authority of male rulers, maintained themselves through the reproductive and productive powers of women