As world leaders gather in Copenhagen this week to manage climate change from above, activists and demonstrators around the world (such as a human clock in Austria) struggle to hold them accountable from below. Beginning later this week, Social Text will publish a new Periscope series, edited by Ashley Dawson, on climate change politics. We invite your comments and participation.
Tavia Nyong'o
Tavia Nyong’o is a cultural critic and professor of African American studies, American studies, and theater studies at Yale University. He writes on art, music, politics, culture, and theory. His first book, <em>The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory</em> (2009), won the Errol Hill Award for best book in African American theatre and performance studies, and a new book, <em>Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life</em>, is forthcoming from NYU Press in the fall of 2018. Nyong’o has published in venues such as <em>Radical History Review</em>, <em>Criticism</em>, <em>GLQ</em>, <em>TDR</em>, <em>Women & Performance</em>, <em>WSQ</em>, <em>The Nation</em>, <em>Triple Canopy</em>, <em>The New Inquiry</em>, and <em>n+1</em>. He is co-editor of the journal <em>Social Text</em>.
