This November, as the COP29 fanfare troops its colours in Baku, POSSIBLE FUTURES and Fondation Frantz Fanon are hosting a series of workshops introducing and exploring colonial sustainability.
What have been, and continue to be, the narratives, mechanisms and systems that build upon one another to establish and advance colonial sustainability?
The contemporary sustainability industry is built to sustain a colonial world order.
White supremacy’s centuries-long European colonial project provides the foundations for today’s dominant sustainability rhetoric. In interrogating the ideology and governance structures of the sustainability industry itself, we reveal coloniality’s violence and pervasiveness.
Astonishingly, the institutional and cultural evolution of the sustainability industry may be traced from as far back as the Holy Roman Empire.
The Worldeater Series on Colonial Sustainability
The Worldeater Series traces the evolution of colonial sustainability through the following themes in three 2h workshops:
Participants of this workshop series can expect to be introduced to decolonial perspectives and discussions in each of the three themes.
A two-page brief and 30min discussion video on the theme will be provided ahead of each workshop.
Workshops themselves will be highly participatory, in collectively interrogating colonial sustainability.
For each of the workshops, participants will receive:
a two-page brief
a 30min discussion video by Colonial Sustainability co-authors
Live ticket holders: an invitation to a 2h live workshop held at 2230h WIT, with access to workshop recording
Playback ticket holders: receive the workshop recording within 7 days after the live workshop
Or, join or watch all three workshops:
► Worldeater Series
join all three live workshops, take part in plenary and breakout discussions
receive access to all workshop recordings
summary pack including knowledge resources, plus reflective commentary from co-authors
► Worldeater Playback
receive access to all workshop recordings
summary pack including knowledge resources, plus reflective commentary from co-authors
► Lawful and righteous Christian terrorism
Doctrine of Discovery
Great Chain of Being
Institutional justifications
► Colonialism caused the climate crisis
Colonial ecocide
Planetary systems collapse
Imperial environmentalism
► Industrialisation of colonial sustainability
Industrial sustainable accelerates colonisation
Institutional mechanisms uphold colonialism
Sustainability as a colonial class
The Worldeater Series is hosted by co-authors of Colonial Sustainability (Sayson et al, 2024). The workshops are facilitated by Samantha Suppiah, Anna Denardin and Luiza Oliveira of the POSSIBLE FUTURES Crew, with workshop discussion and closing commentary from renowned decolonial thinker and Co-Chair of Frantz Fanon Foundation, Prof. Nelson Maldonado-Torres.
We welcome professionals, academics, activists and students to join us in learning about, and grappling with, colonial sustainability - as we witness the Worldeater amass for the 29th time in Baku.
Tickets
The Worldeater Series is 100% free for those in the Global South involved in indigenous rights or peasant rights organisations as part-time or full-time volunteers, interns, employees, or members. Use the form below to submit proof of involvement. We'll get back to you within 7 days.
are available for individual workshops (live or playback) - as well as for a package of all three workshops (live or playback).
Live tickets require your presence and engagement; playback tickets provide only the workshop recording(s), uploaded for private viewing within one week after the corresponding live workshop.
Please see below for discounts for students and those in the Global South.
are available at 50% discount for students currently on a Bachelor's programme or prior. Submit proof of study to obtain your student promo code that may be used for any or all of the above tickets.
Join live
Playback
Workshops
► Lawful and righteous Christian terrorism
► Industrialisation of colonial sustainability
► Colonialism caused the climate crisis
Student Tickets
Global South
We are using dynamic pricing, where participants located in different countries are automatically shown different prices related to their currencies. If you are in the Global South, but are viewing the ticket price in Euros, please request for your currency to be listed by filling in the below form by 24th October 2024.
Global Core
At least 25% of total Worldeater Series revenues are allocated as decolonial reparations paid to our indigenous partners Instituto Janeraka, IPMSDL, and other organisations and individuals advancing decolonial aspects of the indigenous and peasant rights movements.
Tickets
are available for individual workshops (live or playback) - as well as for a package of all three workshops (live or playback).
Live tickets require your presence and engagement; playback tickets provide only the workshop recording(s), uploaded for private viewing within one week after the corresponding live workshop.
Please see below for discounts for students and those in the Global South.
At least 25% of total Worldeater Series revenues are allocated as decolonial reparations paid to our indigenous partners Instituto Janeraka, IPMSDL, and other organisations and individuals advancing decolonial aspects of the indigenous and peasant rights movements.