Dominant and insurgent socio-climatic imaginaries struggle for influence over how the future is envisioned. Africanfuturist imaginaries have huge potential to unsettle racialised and gendered climate narratives. In this article I use Nnedi Okorafor’s novel Who Fears Death in order to challenge mainstream climate imaginaries and to imagine new forms of being and becoming in the context of climate change. Drawing on Achille Mbembe’s concepts of biopolitics and necropolitics, as well as black feminist traditions of imagining new genres of the human, I argue that Okorafor’s “wild necropolitics” illuminates how the forces of “wild nature” have become central features of the deployment of the means of destroying life, especially in the context of climate change. By examining the motifs of change, violence, wilderness and narration, I argue that reading and writing different stories about alternative climate futures is essential to the process of finding new ways of being and becoming human.

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非洲未来主义者的社会气候想象和 Nnedi Okorafor 的狂野墓地政治

占主导地位和叛乱的社会气候想象为影响未来的设想而斗争。非洲未来主义的想象具有巨大的潜力来扰乱种族化和性别化的气候叙事。在这篇文章中，我使用了 Nnedi Okorafor 的小说Who Fears Death为了挑战主流的气候想象，并在气候变化的背景下想象新的存在形式。借鉴 Achille Mbembe 的生命政治和墓地政治的概念，以及想象人类新类型的黑人女权主义传统，我认为 Okorafor 的“狂野墓地政治”阐明了“狂野自然”的力量如何成为部署毁灭生命的手段，尤其是在气候变化的背景下。通过研究变化、暴力、荒野和叙事的主题，我认为阅读和撰写有关替代气候未来的不同故事对于寻找新的存在方式和成为人类的过程至关重要。