INTRODUCTION

EcoFutures is a project on speculative fiction, nonfiction, and other creative work on climate justice. In each issue, our contributors will imagine actionable, inspiring, bottom-up solutions and adaptations in the face of the climate chaos, environmental degradation, and escalating inequality. We look to voices from the margins of the current global order, seeking alternatives to the top-down interventions that dominate mainstream climate discourse. Each issue will feature an original creative work or interview with a featured writer, and a response essay by a scholar or activist, along with other materials.

In this second issue, we feature a creative and speculative interview with Gladson Dungdung, an acclaimed human rights activist and writer. Dungdung is founder of the Adivasis Publications, Adivasis Hunkar and Jharkhand Human Rights Movement. The interview has been conducted by Vandana Singh.

The interview is paired with essays by Sanghamitra Das, Malvika Gupta and Felix Padel, and the landmark essay “Imagining Indigenous Futurisms” by Prof. Grace Dillon (Anishinaabe), which we reprint here courtesy of the University of Arizona Press in English and in Hindi translation. 

EcoFutures is supported by CoFutures at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo and the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University.