ABSTRACT
This chapter stages a critique of “post-apocalypticism” through a sustained analysis of environmental precarity and its temporal, post-human implications. We argue that the centering of US Americans in post-apocalyptic fiction frequently enacts what we term structural appropriation—a process in which the world-threatening structural violence that has already been experienced by colonized and postcolonial populations is projected on to predominantly white characters and readers. To better understand the colonial and post-colonial experiences of environmental apocalypse that are occluded by structural appropriation, we compare the temporal and spatial dimensions of US, postcolonial, and Indigenous post-apocalyptic narratives.
