Spatial Futures invites readers to imagine power and freedom through the lens of the ‘Black Outdoors’, a transdisciplinary spatial concept that operates beyond the planetary, stratigraphic confines of the ‘Anthropocene’.

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.

Spatial Futures invites readers to imagine power and freedom through the lens of the ‘Black Outdoors’, a transdisciplinary spatial concept that operates beyond the planetary, stratigraphic confines of the ‘Anthropocene’. The chapters collectively point to the ontological-epistemological contradictions involved in forging liberatory spatial futures. Bringing new spatial imaginaries to bear in and outside geography, the book refuses the strictures of the ‘cenic’, entertaining difference as world-making.

​“This collection brims with the insurgent thinking needed to imagine spatial futures beyond the enclosures and modes of valuation that nation, capital, property, and racial supremacy have deployed to devastating planetary effect. Working through, within, and from Blackness, this superb collection shows us how relational thought and practice can create spatial subjectivities of liberation.”– Mabel Wilson, Professor and Co-Director of Global Africa Lab, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA and author of Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums“Here is a primer that tracks and unharnesses colonial time, offering capacious possibilities for otherworldbuilding. Drawing on wide-ranging analytical contexts, the collection draws attention to the multifarious ways that capital, finance, and militarism circulate through, bear down on, and generate alternative expressions of planetary well-being.”--Katherine McKittrick, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies, Queen’s University, Canada and author of Dear Science and Other Stories“This collection plots new ontological ground for moving beyond the geo-logic violence of the Anthropocene, building on liberatory pathways, present and past.” --Maano Ramutsindela, Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa and author of Transfrontier Conservation in Africa: At the Confluence of Capital, Politics and Nature

Establishes multidisciplinary alliances that will be necessary in the post-Anthropocene Makes bold use of future worlds literatures and dystopian speculative fiction Brings multiple perspectives by scholars from a range of interdisciplinary fields