The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis
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 an...
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| description | 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’. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1183482024-07-22T16:02:43Z The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis Hamilton, Clive Bonneuil, Christophe Gemenne, François Alf Hornborg Biodiversity Bronislaw Szerszynski Bruno Latour Christophe Bonneuil Climate Change Conservation Dipesh Chakrabarty ENVIRONMENTAL REFLEXIVITY Environmental economics Environmental policy Environmental studies François Gemenne Hornborg Ingolfur Blühdorn Isabelle Stengers Jean-Baptiste Fressoz Luc Semal Michael Northcott meta-narrative nature Sustainability Sustainable development Virginie Maris Yves Cochet thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecology thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy and protocols 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’. 2023-10-19T16:41:29Z 2023-10-19T16:41:29Z 2015 book ONIX_20231019_9781317589099_49 9781317589099 9781138821231 9781315743424 9781138821248 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/118348 eng Routledge Environmental Humanities image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/62310/1/9781317589099.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315743424 10.4324/9781315743424 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 969f21b5-ac00-4517-9de2-44973eec6874 9781317589099 9781138821231 9781315743424 9781138821248 Routledge 200 [...] Knowledge Unlatched open access |
| spellingShingle | Alf Hornborg Biodiversity Bronislaw Szerszynski Bruno Latour Christophe Bonneuil Climate Change Conservation Dipesh Chakrabarty ENVIRONMENTAL REFLEXIVITY Environmental economics Environmental policy Environmental studies François Gemenne Hornborg Ingolfur Blühdorn Isabelle Stengers Jean-Baptiste Fressoz Luc Semal Michael Northcott meta-narrative nature Sustainability Sustainable development Virginie Maris Yves Cochet thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecology thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy and protocols The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis |
| title | The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis |
| title_full | The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis |
| title_fullStr | The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis |
| title_short | The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis |
| title_sort | anthropocene and the global environmental crisis |
| topic | Alf Hornborg Biodiversity Bronislaw Szerszynski Bruno Latour Christophe Bonneuil Climate Change Conservation Dipesh Chakrabarty ENVIRONMENTAL REFLEXIVITY Environmental economics Environmental policy Environmental studies François Gemenne Hornborg Ingolfur Blühdorn Isabelle Stengers Jean-Baptiste Fressoz Luc Semal Michael Northcott meta-narrative nature Sustainability Sustainable development Virginie Maris Yves Cochet thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecology thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy and protocols |
| topic_facet | Alf Hornborg Biodiversity Bronislaw Szerszynski Bruno Latour Christophe Bonneuil Climate Change Conservation Dipesh Chakrabarty ENVIRONMENTAL REFLEXIVITY Environmental economics Environmental policy Environmental studies François Gemenne Hornborg Ingolfur Blühdorn Isabelle Stengers Jean-Baptiste Fressoz Luc Semal Michael Northcott meta-narrative nature Sustainability Sustainable development Virginie Maris Yves Cochet thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecology thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy and protocols |
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