The Anthropocene and the global environmental crisis rethinking modernity in a new epoch
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
2015.
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| Edición: | 1 ed |
| Colección: | Routledge Environmental Humanities
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009770715806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""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""
