ABSTRACT
Prevailing iterations of the Anthropocene tend to elide the specificities of site-based, local events of climate change, presenting human-induced changes of the earth’s climate in abstract terms by means of scientific modeling and speculative projections. This chapter analyzes recent Niger Delta post-oil envisioning that enables researchers to approach the Anthropocene as a profound actuality of place. Thinking of oil energy sites in relation to the Anthropocene involves thinking the environments where humanity’s voracious overreach has been most telling and visible. The collective vision evinces how the earth, nature, and all possibilities of life crumble under the sign of oil, bearing witness to the series of events that mark the culmination of the world’s end. In her attempt to envision a new beginning beyond the world of fossil-fueled modernity, Zina has artfully domesticated a space previously internationalized, reconfiguring the landscape as a space ontologically charged with the quotidian, a place where one could play and be at ease.
