Climate without nature : a critical anthropology of the anthropocene / Andrew M. Bauer, Mona Bhan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauer, Andrew M., author.

Bhan, Mona, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Global warming.

Climatic changes.

Environmentalism.

Conservation of natural resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 167 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This book offers a critical reading of the Anthropocene that draws on archaeological, ecological, geological, and ethnographic evidence to argue that the concept reproduces the modernist binary between society and nature, and forecloses a more inclusive politics around climate change. The authors challenge the divisions between humans as biological and geophysical agents that constitute the ontological foundations of the period. Building on contemporary critiques of capitalism, they examine different conceptions of human-environment relationships derived from anthropology to engage with the pressing problem of global warming.

Contents:

Introduction : materializing climate

Assembling the anthropocene divide

On soils, stones, and social relationships of geophysical history

On glaciers and grass and weather and welfare

Social welfare without the anthropocene's nature

Conclusion : toward a critical anthropology of global warming.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Mar 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-53011-7

1-108-52563-6

1-108-53437-6