ABSTRACT
This chapter shows literature of the Global South as working as a series of new interventions into materialist thought, explicitly historicizing the extractive, exploitative ontologies of capitalist accumulation in order to produce a ground for the emergences of complex, multi-agent ontologies—the “new” materialisms of the Global South. Thus, Global South literature makes discussions of the insufficiencies of previous materialisms (and hence of the region's own history of materialist thought) possible by focusing on the role of climate collapse, non-human/human agency, and uneven and combined development exercise in the development of rigorous materialisms.
