Responding to the Anthropocene Perspectives from Twelve Academic Disciplines

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Münster, Ursula

Contributor:

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland.

Asu Schroer, Sara

Hessen, Dag Olav

Sjåfjell, Beate

Jordheim, Helge

Nightingale, Andrea J.

Côte, Muriel

Riede, Felix

Fredriksen, Per Ditlev

Aguilar-Støen, Mariel

Asdal, Kristin

Lien, Marianne Elisabeth

Blom, Ina

Furuseth, Sissel

Hansen, Mette Halskov.

Münster, Ursula, Editor.

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland., Editor.

Asu Schroer, Sara, Editor.

Münster, Ursula

Hylland Eriksen, Thomas

Standardized Title:

Responding to the Antropocene 2023 English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages)

Place of Publication:

Spartacus Forlag AS / Scandinavian Academic Press 2023

Language Note:

Text in English

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PDF

text file

Summary:

The Anthropocene - the era of humans - refers to a time when humanity has left its indelible stamp on the planet, including its geology and biogeochemistry. Understanding the Anthropocene, where the risk of irreversible and catastrophic ecological damage looms on the horizon, is a daunting task and solutions seem to be difficult to come by. What we offer in this book consists of fifteen perspectives on the Anthropocene written by scholars with backgrounds in over a dozen academic disciplines - archaeology, biology, geology, cultural history, literature, art history, science and technology studies, anthropology, political ecology, geography and law. Together, they offer tools enabling us to grasp the Anthropocene as a multifaceted phenomenon that requires attention from across the social and natural sciences as well as the humanities. Unlike most academic texts, these chapters are written in a personal and engaging style indicating not only that the Anthropocene is a worthy subject of scholarly attention, but that its implications are existentially important to the authors, who are not just researchers, but also global citizens.

Contents:

Introduction: responding to the Anthropocene / Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Sara Asu Schroer, and Ursula Münster. - 1,: Connecting climate and culture: bad and good feedbacks in the Anthropocene Dag O. Hessen.- 2.: Anthropocene encounters in deep time / Henrik H. Svensen. - 3.: Sustainability and law in the Anthropocene / Beate Sjåfjell. - 4.: What is it about the Anthropocene that anthropologists should be mindful of? / Thomas Hylland Eriksen. - 5.: When is the anthropocene :a historian’s perspective / Helge Jordheim. - 6.: Geographies of the Anthropocene: race, feminism and contested histories / Andrea J. Nightingale, and Muriel Côte. - 7.: Archaeology in, of and for the Anthropocene / Felix Riede, and Per Ditlef Fredriksen. - 8.: Examining the links between meat, viruses and disease in the Anthropocene / Mariel Aguilar-Støen. - 9.: The nature and politics of documents: the Anthropocene as a document site / Kristin Asdal. - 10.: Domestication and multispecies relations in the Anthropocene / Marianne Elisabeth Lien. - 10.: Unthought environments: art and the Anthropocene / Ina Blom. - 12.: Ecocriticism and petroculture studies as translation work / Sissel Furuseth.- Epilogue / Mette Halskov Hansen. - List of contributors

ISBN:

978-82-304-0362-4

978-82-304-0323-5

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access