Alexia Alkadi-Barbaro is a PhD candidate in Political Theory at Cornell University. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Finite Earth: Repair in the Shadow of Empire” excavates and reconstructs anticolonial environmental thought in the mid-twentieth century, tracing its emergence during the height of decolonization (c. 1920-1970) and following its development during the neoliberal counterrevolution of the late 1970s. Supplementing recent work on racial capitalism and environmental degradation, she turns to histories (both well-known and obscure) of four itinerant anticolonial thinkers and the environmental grassroots movements to which they were part: Bermudan environmental activist and engineer Pauulu Kamarakafego, African American activist Audley Moore, Egyptian economist and political theorist Samir Amin, and Trinidadian economist Lloyd Best who were who were oriented toward what I call the “reparative overcoming” of the vestiges of imperial rule across the era of decolonization (c. 1930-1980). From this historical and theoretical study, her dissertation develops an account of collateral damage as one of the most important forms of the “afterlife” of colonialism, and how this form of structural domination demands not simply reparations, but repair. Her dissertation argues that these theorists and activists understood that fully overcoming global racial hierarchy could not happen through monetary redistribution alone, or international inclusion of decolonized states and instead advocated for a more radical reimagining of labor and production in a way that took seriously the finitude of the earth itself. Alexia’s research has been generously supported by the American Political Science Association, the Institute for Comparative Modernities, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the Zhu Fellowship at Cornell University. She received her BA (hons.) from Loyola Marymount University in Philosophy and Political Science and her MPhil in the History of Political Thought from the University of Cambridge (hons.) prior to embarking on her PhD at Cornell University.