Antiblackness in flood risk in Hull: the afterlife of colonialism

Lomotey, Michael (2024) Antiblackness in flood risk in Hull: the afterlife of colonialism. In, Sultana, Farhana (ed.) Confronting Climate Coloniality : Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice. Routledge, p. 20.

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Abstract

This chapter uses the lens of antiblackness as a theoretical and ontological framework through which to seek to uncover truths in climate change discourses and policy interventions. Drawing from research focused on a climate change related hazard, namely flooding, it is situated in the racialised geographical context of flooding in the east coast city of Kingston- Upon- Hull, UK (Hull). Despite Hull’s significant (and marginalised) Black community who were also impacted, no policies or interventions that surrounded the floods took the Black community into consideration. Hull as a case study illustrates conceptual discussions around the link between Quijano (2007) and Mignolo’s (2017, p. 10) Eurocentric modernity/coloniality. By confronting coloniality in disaster preparedness, risk and response (DRR) we uncover that DRR mirrors other structures of society where Black lives do not matter.

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