Of Monsters and Mothers: Affective climates and human-nonhuman sociality in Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner’s “Dear Matafele Peinam”

Abstract

This article examines the production of doubt and apathy within climate change debates and argues that the material outcomes of this affective regime perpetuate colonialism in Oceania. By furthering land dispossession, resource depletion, cultural loss, and impoverishment, the affective and material impacts of climate change have been and continue to be a site of activism for Native Pacific peoples.