Tag: Anthropocene

Free Download Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, "Cinema of/for the Anthropocene "
English | ISBN: 1032746351 | 2025 | 214 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
Cinema of/for the Anthropocene sheds new light on the question of how films can allow us to resituate ourselves within what is known today as the Anthropocene. The authors address this question through a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives, from film and cultural studies, new materialisms, critical posthumanism and animal studies, critical race theory and Indigenous media studies, to gender and sexuality studies, with a primary focus on films produced in the United States and Canada.

Free Download Cinema of/for the Anthropocene: Affect, Ecology, and More-Than-Human Kinship
by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz and Andrea Ruthven
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032746351 | 215 Pages | True PDF | 11.2 MB

Free Download The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability (The Future) by Carolyn Merchant
English | April 1st, 2020 | ISBN: 0300244231 | 232 pages | True EPUB | 16.63 MB
A wide-ranging and original introduction to the Anthropocene that offers fresh, theoretical insights bridging the sciences and the humanities

Free Download Hope in the Anthropocene: Agency, Governance and Negation
by Valerie Waldow, Pol Bargués
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1399529854 | 286 Pages | PDF | 6.7 MB

Free Download Wayne Hope, "The Anthropocene, Global Capitalism and Global Futures: Times Out of Joint "
English | ISBN: 303163599X | 2024 | 247 pages | EPUB, PDF | 487 KB + 6 MB
This book seeks to show that the Anthropocene epoch of the earth system has converged with the global epoch of capitalist history. Planetary warming and climate change are, therefore, unfolding rapidly. This enveloping process is driven forward by the mutual ruptures of a deteriorating earth system and fossil based global capitalism, as a fraught socioecological totality. Overlapping crises of time are the net result. They involve, the recurring, myopic volatility of financialised capitalism, the ecological impossibility of sustaining capitalist growth, the spreading arrhythmias of biotic, animal, bird, insect and marine life and the irremediable psychological stresses of climate change anxiety. The time crises of global capitalism originate from certain disjunctures of time associated with carbon extractivism, carbon emission markets and official climate change projections. The book sets out the counter constructions of time necessary to energise the climate justice movement and advance ecosocialist principles.

Free Download Voyagers: Our Journey Into the Anthropocene by Lauren Fuge
English | July 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 192279077X | 352 pages | True EPUB | 0.73 MB
Award-winning science writer Lauren Fuge journeys from the fjords of the Pacific Northwest to the geology of outback Australia to the edges of the known universe, and asks: what drives our urge to explore? Can we find in our voyaging history the tools to reimagine our future?

Free Download Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena
English | May 7, 2024 | ISBN: 1503637328 | 344 pages | MOBI | 19 Mb
Nature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help.

Free Download Matthew James Hamm, "Environmental Narratives in the Huainanzi and the Anthropocene"
English | ISBN: 1666914355 | 2024 | 236 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Environmental Narratives in the Huainanzi and the Anthropocene analyzes the contemporary discourse of the Anthropocene using the Huainanzi 淮南子, an eastern Eurasian text from the second century BCE. Written to preserve and strengthen the Han Empire (202 BCE-220 CE), the Huainanzi describes a mode of rulership premised on periodizing the present as the end of history that domesticates humans and non-humans. Matthew James Hamm provides a contextualized reading of the Huainanzi’s argument and uses it as a theoretical lens to read Anthropocene scholarship in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Hamm argues that-irrespective of the name or historical narrative used to describe it-the idea of the Anthropocene as a new epoch not only lacks empirical evidence, but also empowers the existing periodization of modernity to provide ideological support for environmentally destructive neoliberal structures rooted in Western European imperial orders. By doing so, the Anthropocene framework actively inhibits the transformative social change needed to address global environmental crises such as climate change and mass extinction. Consequently, this book rejects periodization as a conceptual framework for addressing those issues and advocates for greater scholarly engagement with environmental theories outside the European and Anglo-American traditions, such as the Huainanzi.

Free Download Clarilza Prado de Sousa, "Social Representations for the Anthropocene: Latin American Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 303067777X | 2021 | 440 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The Anthropocene has become a field of studies in which the influence of human activity on the Earth System and nature is both the main threat and the potential solution. Social Representations Theory has been evolving since the 1960s.It links knowledge and practice in everyday life and is an effective way to deal with systemic crises based on common sense. This book assembles key contributions by Latin American scholars working with social representations in the social sciences that are of conceptual relevance to the study of the Anthropocene and that investigate the societal consequences of complex interrelations between common sense and topics of global relevance, such asthe contradictions of sustainable development, the construction of risks beyond risk-perception, health, negotiation and governance in the field of education, gender equality, the usefulness of longitudinal and systemic ethnography and case studies, and agency and the link between inequality, crises and risk society in the context of COVID-19, presenting theoretical and methodological innovations fromSpanish, Portuguese and Frenchresearchthat have rarely been available in English.

Free Download Outi Rantala, "Researching with Proximity: Relational methodologies for the Anthropocene "
English | ISBN: 3031394992 | 2024 | 234 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This open access book presents a series of speculative, experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental damage that have come to be known as the age of the Anthropocene. Throughout the book authors develop more nuanced ways of engaging with the environmentally vulnerable Arctic. They counter distancing, exoticising, and even apocalyptic imaginaries of the Arctic by staying proximate with mundane places and beings of the north. The volume engages and plays with familiar tourism concepts, such as hospitality, visiting, difference, care, openness, and distance, while expanding the focus from binary and human-centric approaches of hosts and guests to questions of wellbeing among multispecies communities. The transdisciplinary group of contributors share a curiosity about how staying proximate may provide theoretical depth and epistemological openings to attend to current tensions and to diversify the ways we do and enact research. Thus, each chapter provides a methodological experiment with proximity, developing diverse ways of envisioning and storying more-than-human worlds.