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Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epoch

We live in a new world: the Anthropocene. The Age of Man is defined in many ways, and most dramatically through climate change, mass extinction, and human marks in the geological record. Ideas of the Anthropocene spill out from the geophysical sciences into the humanities, social sciences, the arts, and mainstream debates—but it’s hard to know what the new coinage really means. Break Up the Anthropocene argues that this age should subvert imperial masculinity and industrial conquest by opening up the plural possibilities of Anthropocene debates of resilience, adaptation, and the struggle for environmental justice.

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Break Up the Anthropocene

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      Publisher University of Minnesota Press
      Published 29 May 2019
      ISBN-13 9781517908621
      978-1517908621
      ISBN-10 1517908620
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary theory Science & Nature Impact of science and technology on society

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epoch

      We live in a new world: the Anthropocene. The Age of Man is defined in many ways, and most dramatically through climate change, mass extinction, and human marks in the geological record. Ideas of the Anthropocene spill out from the geophysical sciences into the humanities, social sciences, the arts, and mainstream debates—but it’s hard to know what the new coinage really means. Break Up the Anthropocene argues that this age should subvert imperial masculinity and industrial conquest by opening up the plural possibilities of Anthropocene debates of resilience, adaptation, and the struggle for environmental justice.

      Forerunners: Ideas First
      Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

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