The Anthropocene and the global environmental crisis : : rethinking modernity in a new epoch / / [edited by] Clive Hamilton, Christophe Bonneuil and Francois Gemenne.
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...
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| Superior document: | Routledge Environmental Humanities |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1 ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge Environmental Humanities
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
| Notes: | "earthscan from Routlede"--cover. |
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Table of Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""List of figure and table""; ""Contributors""; ""1 Thinking the Anthropocene""; ""PART I The concept and its implications""; ""2 The geological turn: narratives of the Anthropocene""; ""3 Human destiny in the Anthropocene""; ""4 The Anthropocene and the convergence of histories""; ""5 The political ecology of the Technocene: uncovering ecologically unequal exchange in the world-system""; ""6 Losing the Earth knowingly: six environmental grammars around 1800""; ""PART II Catastrophism in the Anthropocene""
- ""7 Anthropocene, catastrophism and green political theory""""8 Eschatology in the Anthropocene: from the chronos of deep time to the kairos of the age of humans""; ""9 Green eschatology""; ""PART III Rethinking politics""; ""10 Back to the Holocene: a conceptual, and possibly practical, return to a nature not intended for humans""; ""11 Accepting the reality of Gaia: a fundamental shift?""; ""12 Telling friends from foes in the time of the Anthropocene""; ""13 A much-needed renewal of environmentalism? Eco-politics in the Anthropocene""; ""14 The Anthropocene and its victims""; ""Epilogue""
- ""15 Commission on planetary ages decision CC87966424/49: the onomatophore of the Anthropocene""""Index""