To help social movement activists think through what that would look like, brown draws on the science-fiction work of Octavia Butler because she sees the value and importance of “science-fictional behavior” in the process of social change. We need to learn to grow together in intentional ways so that we can embody those very worlds we want to create in our practices, relationships, and engagement with the land.
It’s not simply enough to fight for a different world! This is what the Zapatista’s describe as “ Un Mundo Donde Quepan Muchos Mundos” or “A World in Which Many Worlds Fit.” In this sense, brown suggests, “Emergent strategy is how we intentionally change in ways that grow our capacity to embody the just and liberated worlds we long for.” To flourish, according to Moten and brown, social movements must proliferate, they must use a wide range of strategies and tactics, and they must innovate, but perhaps most importantly they must communicate and be in relationship with one another. protests, changing the culture of dance parties, information campaigns, uprisings, riots, electoral campaigns, etc.) all make up the ecosystem of social and political change. Said, differently, poet and theorist of the Black radical imagination, Fred Moten, describes these as “ small scale actions with infinite proliferations.” These small scale actions (i.e. As these interactions multiply they form complex systems and patterns that bring about something new. Instead it starts with micro-processes and simple interactions. It is not something that we can describe in the same way that Jemisin discusses, for instance, a “fifth season”.
Let’s sit with that sentence for a moment, because there is a lot to unpack.įor brown, Emergence, is not a cataclysmic event.
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