Insurgent Geologies - Kathryn Yusoff, Stella Mutegi, Kabage Karanja and e-flux Architecture - Editorial

Editorial

Kathryn Yusoff, Stella Mutegi, Kabage Karanja, Owen Hopkins, and e-flux Architecture

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Cave_bureau, Kathryn Yusoff, and Owen Hopkins, The Earth Compass, detail, 2025. Photo: Chris Lane © British Council

Insurgent Geologies
May 2025










Notes
1

Nnimmo Bassey, To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis (Cape Town: Pambazuka Press, 2012)

2

Kathryn Yusoff, Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024).

3

Cedric J Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1983), xxxiv

4

Wangarĩ Maathai, Unbowed (New York: Knopf, 2006); Thomas Sankara, “Imperialism is the arsonist of our forests and savannas.” This speech was given at the first International Silva Conference for the Protection of the Trees and Forests in Paris. It was published in the February 14, 1986, issue of Carrefour Africain, ; Amílcar Cabral, Our People are Our Mountains (London: Committee for Freedom in Mozambique, Angola & Guiné, 1972), Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories (Johannesburg: Inkani Books, 2022), and Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2023).

5

Mette Marie Kallehauge and Malou Wedel Bruun eds. Cave_bureau: The Architect's Studio (Zürich: Lars Müller, 2023).

6

Azeezat Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury, and Beth Kamunge eds. The Fire Now, Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence (London: Bloomsbury, 2018); Rheim Alkadhi’s “Templates for Liberation,” ICA, London, 11 June – 5 September, 2024.

7

Owen Hopkins ed. Towards Another Architecture (London and Newcastle: Lund Humphries and Farrell Centre, 2024).