The shock of the anthropocene : the earth, history and us / Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz ; translated by David Fernbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonneuil, Christophe, author.

Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste, author.

Contributor:

Fernbach, David, translator.

Standardized Title:

Événement anthropocène. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Global environmental change.

Physical Description:

xiv, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Verso, 2017.

Language Note:

Translated from French.

Summary:

"The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a "human species" that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent "environmental awareness," about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, The Shock of the Anthropocene dissects a new theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part One. What's in a word? 1. Welcome to the anthropocene ; 2. Thinking with Gaia : towards environmental humanities

Part Two. Speaking for the earth, guiding humanity : deconstructing the geocratic grand narrative of the anthropocene. 3. Clio, the earth and the anthropocenologists ; 4. Who is the anthropos?

Part Three. What histories for the anthropocene? 5. Thermocene : a political history of CO₂ ; 6. Thanatocene : power and ecocide ; 7. Phagocene : consuming the planet ; 8. Phronocene : grammars of environmental reflexivity ; 9. Agnotocene : externalizing nature, economizing the world ; 10. Capitalocene : a combined history of earth system and world-systems ; 11. Polemocene : resisting the deterioration of the earth since 1750

Conclusion : surviving and living the anthropocene.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1784785032

9781784785031

OCLC:

949640388