Southern Anthropocenes

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-10262-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Reihe: CRESC

This wide ranging volume addresses the changing landscape of problems, challenges, and possibilities that emerge once the macroscopic notion of the Anthropocene is replaced with Southern Anthropocenes. It envisions Southern Anthropocenes as an opening towards forms and ends of life that exceeds—while remaining in partial relation with—modern socio-economic horizons and the determinations of the geo-, eco-, and climate sciences.

What happens if Southern Anthroposcenes are allowed to multiply, and room is made for practices of worlding and life that are impossible from within the singular Anthropocene?

Key issues include emergent interfaces between beings, ways of living, and worlds; problems of co-existence in and across pluriversal contact zones; explorations of livability under rapidly changing circumstances; speculations about other futures and how to invent them; investigations of more-than human itineraries and entangled territories; and explorations how to collectively invent the portals between ways of thinking and acting on a planet in a critical state. It will be essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in Sociology, Anthropology, Critical Education, Environmental Humanities, Science and Technology Studies, Geography and Urban Studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruun Jensen, Casper

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Futurologie (Interdisziplinär)
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialprognosen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Southern Anthropocenes

Part 1. Emergent Interfaces

Introduction: Emergent Interfaces

1. Welcome to the End of the World: Thinking beyond the Separation of Human and Geological Temporalities

2. Tropical Cargoscapes: Sojourning Putridities in the Afterlives of Medical Necrowaste in Colombo

3. Diving into the Underwater Anthropocene: Vital Materiality and the Becoming of a Shipwreck

4. Gardens at the Edge of the Sky: Toward an Entropological Pact

Part 2. Problems of Co-existence

Introduction: Problems of Co-existence

5. Wounded Lands, Resentful Mountains, and Mourning Maize: The Ecological Violence of War and Peace in Latin America

6. Anthropocene Relations and the ‘Human activity’ in Zimbabwe’s Forest Reserves

7. Difference and Disobedience: Inhabiting the Southern Anthropocene

8. The Plasticene and the Global South

Part 3. Livable Worlds

Introduction: Liveable Worlds

9. To Forego: An Ethics for the Urban Anthropocene

10. Kinship in the Technosphere: From Ishimure Michiko’s Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow to Miyazaki Hayao’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

11. For a World where Mutual Worlds Fit: Political Ontology in the Anthropocene

Part 4. Speculations

Introduction: Speculations (or, how to inhabit the pluriverse?)

12. Decolonial Portals as Pedagogical Practice

13. Anthropocenes Off-Earth

14. How to Construct a Time Machine: The Anthropocene in an Indigo Vat

15. Speculation as Method: World-Building and Collective (Un-)Learning for the Anthropocene

Part 5. More-than-Human Itineraries

Introduction: More-than-Human Itineraries

16. Street Feeding Stray Cats: A Multi-Species Cosmopolitics in Urban Indonesia

17. Migratory Birds, Migratory Lives: A Brackish Contact Zone in Bang Pu, Thailand

18. Artisans of the Plasticene: Polytanks and Plasticities in Urban Ghana

19. Reclaiming Country: Australian Aboriginal Walking Trails as Method

Part 6. Entangled Territories

Introduction: Entangled Territories

20. Under the Plastic Tarp: Memory and a Southern Anthropocene in California’s Pajaro Valley

21. Arctic Worlds in Southern Anthropocenes

22. How to Survive Medicine in the Anthropocene?

23. After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon

Postscript. What Tales will We Leave the Children of Tomorrow? Story-Trading across Southern Anthropocenes

Über Autor(innen)

Casper Bruun Jensen is a Professor at the department of sociology and anthropology at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He is the author of Ontologies for Developing Things (2010) and Monitoring Movements in Development Aid with Brit Ross Winthereik (2013) and the editor of Deleuzian Intersections: Science, Technology, Anthropology with Kjetil Rödje (2009) and Infrastructures and Social Complexity with Penny Harvey and Atsuro Morita (2016). His work focuses on climate, environments, infrastructures, and speculative and practical ontologies.