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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 989–1000.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Karen L. Thornber Abstract The term “Anthropocene,” coined in the 1980s by the ecologist Eugene F. Stoermer and popularized at the turn of the twenty-first century by the atmospheric chemist and Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, has been used increasingly in the past decade to highlight human activity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1005–1007.
Published: 01 November 2014
... “Anthropocene” has emerged, describing that epoch during which human activity has reached such a level of intensity that it has had a discernable impact on the earth itself. Thus, as these writers suggest, it is imperative for us as regional specialists to engage in conversations across disciplines...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 941–962.
Published: 01 November 2014
... much we have been messing up the planet at exactly the same time as we have begun to see what an unnatural and even “queer” mess Nature really is (Morton 2010 ). The present historical moment is, in fact, so unusual that scientists have suggested that it marks a new epoch—called the “Anthropocene...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 975–987.
Published: 01 November 2014
...: What on Earth Are We Doing?” Time , January 2, 1989. 5 This is considered the first naming of the Anthropocene Age; see
Paul
Crutzen
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E. F.
Stoermer
, “ The ‘Anthropocene,’ ” Global Change Newsletter
41 ( 2000 ): 17 – 18
. In a historically specific paragraph...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 963–974.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the Anthropocene as the perfect myth for forging a new vision of our shared humanity. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014 2014 In his Jungian-inspired utopianism, Joseph Campbell ( 1988 , 32) once declared that the famous “Blue Marble” shot of earth from space (see figure 1 ) could...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Elizabeth Chatterjee Abstract Much scholarship extrapolates global narratives of the Anthropocene from the “fossil capitalism” of European imperial powers. This analysis deploys the alternative lens of grid electricity—the great macro-technology of the twentieth century—to reevaluate the dynamics...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 837–848.
Published: 01 November 2019
... , 2018 ), chap. 8 . 35 From different perspectives, see Moore, “The Capitalocene, Part I,” op. cit. note 11, and
Andreas Malm
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Alf Hornborg
, “ The Geology of Mankind? A Critique of the Anthropocene Narrative ,” Anthropocene Review 1 , no. 1 ( 2014 ): 62 – 69...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 929–955.
Published: 01 November 2016
... are shifting to permit new forms of knowledge and new imaginaries as we confront a violently changing world. We will need to think together more than ever. One final note. Ghosh uses the word “Anthropocene.” This term, proposed in 2000 by atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and the ecologist Eugene Stoermer...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 220–221.
Published: 01 February 2015
... Studies, Inc. 2015 2015 The editors of Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power seek to bring Japan into the Anthropocene and the Anthropocene into Japan. It is an ambitious undertaking and largely successful. Environmental historians and scholars of Japanese history...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 212–216.
Published: 01 February 2024
... The Crisis of Global Modernity , published a few years earlier, two eminent historians grapple with the place of the human in the Anthropocene. Their concerns are understandably existential. Defined by the unprecedented impact that humans have had on the Earth's processes, the proposed new geological epoch...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 499–503.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of disciplinary boundaries is necessary as Asian studies continues to exist in the Anthropocene. Scholarly analyses of Asia as such, and discussions of climate change, among other issues, should not continue to exist as if in parallel universes (Hilton 2014 ). Wilson et al. address the issue of scale, though...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 481–497.
Published: 01 May 2017
... still attempting to deal with global-level risk through the institutions of first modernity, or rather, the modernity that necessarily privileges nation-states. His direction of thinking forces us to reposition questions related to the Anthropocene and technopolitics within a framework that extends...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 401–407.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Management in Asia . New Delhi : Springer . Hudson Mark . 2014 . “ Placing Asia in the Anthropocene: Histories, Vulnerabilities, Responses .” Journal of Asian Studies 73 ( 4 ): 941 –62...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 225–227.
Published: 01 February 2024
..., the book discusses the Anthropocene in a more restricted manner compared to its traditional definition, in which the Anthropocene is the critical epoch in which human activities alter boundaries of the Earth system and drive changes in nature. This is possibly due to author's intention to highlight...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 754–756.
Published: 01 August 2015
...” focuses on the late 1940s and early post-occupation years, a time when the zoo once again became one of the most popular places to go for Japanese families. The next chapter looks at one of the most prominent inhabitants of Ueno Zoo in more recent times. In “Pandas in the Anthropocene: Japan's ‘Panda Boom...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 369–373.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of my own research, these comments have an unabashedly China-centric bias, for which I apologize in advance. agriculture Anthropocene China environmental history forestry Japan Korea war Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018 2018 List of References Amrith...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 798–800.
Published: 01 August 2016
... specters haunt both the Anthropocene and would-be analyses of it. Recent years have seen a riot of new theories and novel methodologies to simultaneously disentangle and complicate the boundaries of the human, of capital, and of ecology. Ranging from the intriguing to the quixotic, this genre of critique...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 407–413.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of political ecology, providing a useful framing of issues we now recognize as the advance of the Anthropocene. 18 In the book, Scott's long-standing interest in the role of the state and the lives of those it dominates comes to rest on the question of how the physical and human environments of early...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 698–700.
Published: 01 November 2023
... period, this work has much to offer ongoing efforts in “provincializing the Anthropocene.” 3 The “General Chronology” contains a few oddities: 189 CE is provided as the end of the Han (the death of Emperor Ling) rather than the conventional date of 220 (the forced abdication of the powerless...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 170–172.
Published: 01 February 2021
... to new challenges, and it is a refreshing change from the narratives of decline or disappearance often found in discussions of religious revival and the Anthropocene. What impact is the Anthropocene—the current geological age of human dominance—having on religion? How are communities where religion...
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