Indigeneity and Pan-Africanism in World Politics: Challenging the Coloniality of Ecological Crises and the New Scramble for Africa

这个项目关注的是快速升级的全球生态危机和21世纪争夺非洲的纠缠过程。虽然占主导地位的国际组织和网络的反应未能产生可持续和有效的解决方案，以解决全球生态危机的多个方面，并继续在新自由主义、现代/殖民主义和人类中心主义的框架内运作，但对非洲自然、生态和生态系统的开发和圈地继续不受阻碍。由于历史上和结构上相互交织的多重“深层结构”处于这些令人震惊的进程的底部，一个新出现的问题是，如何将这些批评转化为一个激进的项目，以可持续的生活方式和人类与超越人类之间的健康关系为基础，继续非洲人民和土地的非殖民化。在此背景下，费利克斯仔细审视了非洲土著和泛非主义之间的激进可能性，作为指导框架，并采用跨学科的方法，包括非殖民化理论、土著学术、政治生态学、女权主义理论、批判政治经济学和全球研究理论。该项目涉及来自尼日尔三角洲的奥戈尼社区和来自东非的马赛社区的参与，并采用访谈、生活史和其他定性研究方法。菲利克斯的这一部分研究旨在确定基于非西方认识论和本土世界观的存在和生活的替代模式，这些模式打破了对“自然”、空间和领土的殖民想象，同时朝着泛非洲统一的方向发展。

This project is concerned with the entangled processes of rapidly escalating global ecological crises and the 21st Century Scramble for Africa. While the responses by dominant international organizations and networks have failed to generate sustainable and effective solutions to address the multiple facets of planetary ecological crises and continue to operate within a neoliberal, modern/colonial and anthropocentric framework, the exploitation and enclosure of African natures, ecologies and ecosystems continues unhindered. As multiple historically and structurally intertwined "deep structures" are at the bottom of these alarming processes, one emerging question is how these critiques can be translated into a radical project that continues the decolonization of African peoples and lands based on sustainable modes of living and healthy relationships between the human and the more-than-human.In this context, Felix takes a closer look at the radical possibilities between African indigeneity and Pan-Africanism as guiding frameworks and employs an interdisciplinary approach that includes decolonial theory, indigenous scholarship, political ecology, feminist theories, critical political economy and global studies theories. This project involves the participation of Ogoni communities from the Niger Delta and Maasai communities from East Africa and uses interviews, life histories and other qualitative research methods. This part of Felix's research seeks to identify alternative modes of being and living based on non-Western epistemologies and indigenous world-views that disrupt colonial imaginaries of "Nature," space and territory while simultaneously moving towards Pan-African unity.