A playful but also very serious love letter to Koleka Putumas' citations

This essay thinks through citations as a technology of 'epistepraxis' through three episodes of reflection: citational politics, citational practice in climate change research and selected works by South African poet Koleka Putuma. Throughout, I refer to my own experiences navigating citational practices in climate change research as part of my PhD research project, 'The Politics and Poetics of Climate Change in South Africa and Nigeria'.

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Human Science Research Council SA
Published
2026-05-22
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https://doi.org/10.14749/32361921
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Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
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A playful but also very serious love letter to Koleka Putumas' citations

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A playful but also very serious love letter to Koleka Putumas' citations

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Abstract

This essay thinks through citations as a technology of 'epistepraxis' through three episodes of reflection: citational politics, citational practice in climate change research and selected works by South African poet Koleka Putuma. Throughout, I refer to my own experiences navigating citational practices in climate change research as part of my PhD research project, 'The Politics and Poetics of Climate Change in South Africa and Nigeria'.

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