![]() While the recognition of these connections is vital and integral to boosting awareness of the necessary shift in environmental policies, coming from the premise of a looming threat to human survival casts these connections as “negative” and “reactive” (50), locating non-human agents in relation to the central human figure. Emphasizing the urgency of the environmental crises that the world is embroiled in, this statement also expresses concerns about the perception and attitudes, construed through the discourse of interconnectedness visible and incontestable due to these crises. Rosi Braidotti, contemplating the implications of human and non-human agents’ interrelations laid bare by globalization and capitalism, states in The Posthuman (2013) that the “unity tends to be of the negative kind, as a shared form of vulnerability, that is to say a global sense of inter-connection between the human and the non-human environment in the face of common threats” (50). ![]() ![]() “Master harmonizers”: Making Connections in the Post-Disaster World of Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti Novella Series ![]()
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