That's why CoFUTURES in collaboration with Future Fiction, have selected some Science Fiction stories from the Global South to address some urgent themes and relevant issues, such as the abandonment of fossil fuels in favor of more efficient energy systems based on renewable resources; the creation of sustainable economies and cities in the long term, the relationship between individual choices and community politics in relation to new technologies and lifestyles; new ethics and morals to cope with the coming de-carbonization Era and downshifting to more inclusive paradigms; the reduction of waste, especially in the North of the world, but also by the elites of the South; repairing and reusing as a correct way to avoid technological, commercial and fashion obsolescence; conservation of environmental resources based on the rights of indigenous people and the democratic right of populations to sovereignty over their own resources: energy, forests, land, and water; new kind of governments, redistribution of rights and wealth.
Published by Future Fiction, the production of this anthology has been financed by the European Research Council (grant agreement no. 852190) for CoFutures.
Table of Contents:
Jaguar Island by Toni Moraes (Brasil)
Eco-humans by Tlotlo Tsamaase (Botswana)
The Elevator Era by Soham Guha (India)
The Shadow of the Crystals by Gabriela Damian Miravete (Mexico)
Carry that weight by Victor Fernando Ocampo (Philippines)
Letters to my mother by Chinelo Onwualu (Nigeria)
Carranca by Aline Valek (Brasil)
Bittersweet Are The Waters by Mame Bougouma Diene (Senegal)