Fragments from the History of Loss : : The Nature Industry and the Postcolony / / Louise Green.
The Anthropocene’s urgent message about imminent disaster invites us to forget about history and to focus on the present as it careens into an unthinkable future. To counter this, Louise Green engages with the theoretical framing of nature in concepts such as the “Anthropocene,” “the great accelerat...
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