Pluralizing the Anthropocene
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Reenvisioning the Future of the Planet in the 21st Century
The notion of the Anthropocene spilled out from the geophysical sciences to the humanities, social sciences, arts, and the media, triggering a vast global debate about the future of human life on the planet. In the “age of humans”, humans have become one of the most potent geophysical forces in the planet and our activities are leading us to increasing environmental uncertainties. If the world has ever had the illusion of stability, it is now facing the prospect of endless problems. But the Anthropocene is not just about a runaway world of environmental doom; it is about overcoming disaster and catastrophe and creating new visions of hope and justice. The new challenges of climate change, species extinction, and sea levels rise compel a reenvisioning of humanity's place in the world, and an urgent rethinking of the dominant forces that threaten the planet's ecological balance. Using the term Anthropocene to refer to this new age of growing anthropogenic uncertainties has opened up a whole new field of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary conversations about the relationship of human beings with the environment in the 21st century, but it has also generated a monolithic understanding of the Anthropocene as a unified human experience. This Anthropocene framework around a universalizing species paradigm creates a homogenizing effect. And yet, not all humans are equally involved in the forces driving contemporary environmental crises, and not all humans are equally invited into the conceptual spaces where these disasters are theorised or where responses to these disasters are formulated. Pluralizing the Anthropocene will feature anthropological reflections by major figures in the humanities and contemporary sciences committed to a more plural view of the debates around the Anthropocene and the major issues of resilience, adaptation and the struggle for environmental justice.
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The notion of the Anthropocene spilled out from the geophysical sciences to the humanities, social sciences, arts, and the media, triggering a vast global debate about the future of human life on the planet. In the “age of humans”, humans have become one of the most potent geophysical forces in the planet and our activities are leading us to increasing environmental uncertainties. If the world has ever had the illusion of stability, it is now facing the prospect of endless problems. But the Anthropocene is not just about a runaway world of environmental doom; it is about overcoming disaster and catastrophe and creating new visions of hope and justice. The new challenges of climate change, species extinction, and sea levels rise compel a reenvisioning of humanity's place in the world, and an urgent rethinking of the dominant forces that threaten the planet's ecological balance. Using the term Anthropocene to refer to this new age of growing anthropogenic uncertainties has opened up a whole new field of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary conversations about the relationship of human beings with the environment in the 21st century, but it has also generated a monolithic understanding of the Anthropocene as a unified human experience. This Anthropocene framework around a universalizing species paradigm creates a homogenizing effect. And yet, not all humans are equally involved in the forces driving contemporary environmental crises, and not all humans are equally invited into the conceptual spaces where these disasters are theorised or where responses to these disasters are formulated. Pluralizing the Anthropocene will feature anthropological reflections by major figures in the humanities and contemporary sciences committed to a more plural view of the debates around the Anthropocene and the major issues of resilience, adaptation and the struggle for environmental justice.
The access link will be sent after the registration period has ended.
