This article mobilizes a decolonial critique of the Anthropocene. It argues for a certain epistemic disobedience to what, conceptually and politically, the Anthropocene seeks to legitimate. The article counterposes recent critical and global governance epistemologies, which summon the Anthropocene as a new humanist and statist moment for universal politics, against plural, parochial forms of relational, nonstatist affirmation. Hegemonic governance imaginaries that invoke universalist and naturalizing rationales are shown to reproduce colonial logics. The article argues for marginalized and systematically ignored forms of earthbound relationality that evidence long-standing political and ontological means for responding to modernity’s ecological and social harms. Earthbound and rooted life worlds can affirm ecological responsibility and coconstitution otherwise. Two examples are presented: one from Afro-Caribbean geographies and another from Anishinaabe legal scholarship. Together they evidence enduring ecological reciprocities that unsettle and refuse the totalizing rationalities invoked by Anthropocene horizons.

本文动员了对人类世的殖民主义批评。它主张人类在某种程度上在理论上和政治上都违反人类学寻求合法化的行为。本文与最近批判性的全球治理认识论相对立，后者将人类世召唤为普遍政治的新的人文主义和国家主义时刻，与关系主义的，非国家主义的确认形式的多元，狭och形式相对立。引用了普遍主义和归纳论的霸权治理假想论被证明再现了殖民逻辑。本文主张采用边缘化和系统忽略的地球关系形式，这些形式证明了应对现代性生态和社会危害的长期政治和本体论手段。植根于地球的生机世界可以肯定生态责任和共同宪法。提供了两个示例：一个来自非洲加勒比地区，另一个来自Anishinaabe法律奖学金。他们共同证明了持久的生态互惠，使人类世代所唤起的全部合理性动摇并拒绝了。