| ISBN |
9781138821248 (paperback) |
| 9781138821231 (hardback) |
| Title |
The anthropocene and the global environmental crisis : rethinking modernity in a new epoch / edited by Clive Hamilton, Christophe Bonneuil and François Gemenne. |
| Published |
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015. |
| ©2015 |
| Description |
xi, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Thinking the Anthropocene / Clive Hamilton, Christophe Bonneuil and François Gemenne -- The Geological Turn : Narratives of the Anthropocene / Christophe Bonneuil -- Human Destiny in the Anthropocene / Clive Hamilton -- The Anthropocene and the Convergence of Histories / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- The Political Ecology of the Technocene : Uncovering ecologically unequal exchange in the world-system / Alf Hornborg -- Losing the Earth Knowingly : Six grammars of environmental reflexivity around 1800 / Jean-Baptiste Fressoz -- Anthropocene, Catastrophism and Green Political Theory / Luc Semal -- Eschatology in the Anthropocene : From the chronos of deep time to the kairos of the age of humans / Michael Northcott -- Green Eschatology / Yves Cochet -- Back to the Holocene : A conceptual, and possibly practical, return to a nature not intended for humans / Virginie Maris -- Accepting the Reality of Gaia : A fundamental shift? / Isabelle Stengers -- Telling Friends from Foes in the Time of the Anthropocene / Bruno Latour -- A Much-Needed Renewal of Environmentalism? : eco-politics in the Anthropocene / Ingolfur Blühdorn -- The Anthropocene and Its Victims / François Gemenne -- Commission on Planetary Ages Decision CC87966424/49 : The Onomatophore of the Anthropocene / Bronislaw Szerszynski. |
| Summary |
The anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history, law, economics and philosophy rest are called into question. 'The anthropocene and the global environmental crisis' captures some of the radical new thinking prompted by the arrival of the Anthropocene and opens up the social sciences and humanities to the profound meaning of the new geological epoch, the "Age of Humans". Drawing on the expertise of world-recognised scholars and thought-provoking intellectuals, the book explores the challenges and difficult questions posed by the convergence of geological and human history to the foundational ideas of modern social science. If in the anthropocene humans have become a force of nature, changing the functioning of the Earth system as volcanism and glacial cycles do, then it means the end of the idea of nature as no more than the inert backdrop to the drama of human affairs. It means the end of the "social-only" understanding of human history and agency. These pillars of modernity are now destabilised. The scale and pace of the shifts occurring on Earth are beyond human experience and expose the anachronisms of "holocene thinking". The book explores what kinds of narratives are emerging around the scientific idea of the new geological epoch, and what it means for the "politics of unsustainability". |
| Subjects |
Global environmental change |
| Nature -- Effect of human beings on |
| Philosophical anthropology |
| Other Names |
Hamilton, Clive editor. |
| Bonneuil, Christophe editor. |
| Gemenne, François, 1980- editor. |
| Added Title |
Earthscan from Routledge |
| Series |
Routledge environmental humanities |
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