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...Iva Peša Abstract African experiences have so far not been central to Anthropocene debates. While the Anthropocene usefully theorizes the planetary dimensions of environmental change, how do its propositions hold when applied to specific and widely divergent settings? Drawing from three examples...

...LaKendrick Richardson Abstract Popular conceptualizations of the Anthropocene tend to blur and blend humanity into a singular lump and task it with combating anomalous climate change. This essay questions the dominant narratives of the Anthropocene by excavating the author’s life in the Alabama...

... the valorization of nature as capital in the Anthropocene, and that cede the possibility of different political futures to a global regime of profit making that remains itself sovereign above all. 1. Letter from Kirity Roy, Secretary, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha to Chairman, National Human Rights...

...Ashley Dawson; A. Naomi Paik Abstract The idea of the Anthropocene has spread far beyond its origins in geology, becoming common in contemporary activist and intellectual circles. But who is responsible for the mounting disasters associated with the age of anthropos , and who should be made to pay...

...Francesco Martone; Rosa Jijón; A4C-artsforthecommons Abstract This contribution, inspired by critical debates on the Anthropocene and by the ideas of key Latin American thinkers and academics such as Maristella Svampa, aims at offering an overview of selected works of artists who operate in Latin...

...Michela Coletta Abstract While the notion of the Anthropocene signals the urgency for a climate transition, it stops short of restructuring the anthropocentric principles of the dominant economic and societal model. Pluriversal decolonial designs being debated and practiced in Latin America treat...

[email protected] Copyright © 2023 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2023 art politics museum Anthropocene nonhumanity During the Finnish civil war in 1918 the renowned author Ilmari Kianto called for the extermination of the “wolf bitches” that he saw as a threat...

... of the Anthropocene, which focus on human behavior in the abstract, James’s concept instead draws specific attention to the role of Atlantic slavery in helping globalize modern capitalist production and set in motion processes of environmental destruction such as deforestation. 27 Indeed, in The Black Jacobins...

... unfolds in fourteenth-century Southern Africa. Afropolitan writing may now sample deeper practices of cultured mobility than those generated by enslavement, capitalism, colonialism, and the Anthropocene. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc...

...Ilana Cohen; Emma Crow-Willard; Tanaya Dutta Gupta; Jamila Hammami; Guerline Jozef; Steven Sacco; Kristina Shull; Angela V. Walker; Aly Wane; Daniel Watman; Christine Wheatley Abstract This article posits border abolition as a radical alternative to the Anthropocene. It convenes a group of eleven...

..., marked by deeply unequal experiences in issues like “natural” disasters, pollution, climate change, disease, and urban environmental change. While it is tempting to categorize this era as the Anthropocene—a period marked by the predominant role played by human activity in shaping the environment—some...

... sessions here [in Copenha- gen]: the keynote address is titled “The Anthropocene: Humans as a Force in Global Environmental Cycles,” and the very first session of papers is on “Trans-National Environmental Science.” And on it goes: “Global Foresters,” “World Environmental History,” “The Ecology...

... the ways that people make do with discards and live among ruins; it’s just that Africa’s interactions with the world have made it particularly prone to being poi- soned. Nevertheless, we’re all living among ruins, as scholars of the Anthropocene are showing with increasing ferocity. We must all...

... . Piccoli Valéria , Brownlee Peter John , and Uhlyarik Georgiana , eds. 2015 . Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra Del Fuego to the Arctic . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Purdy Jedediah . 2015 . After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene...

... efficacy? The emergent interdisciplinary literature on the Anthropocene is one area where this important question is being asked, and queer historicist scholars like Dana Luciano are providing necessary interventions in that field as it takes shape. The second answer is more speculative...

... and Culture, 1985), 4. 10. See Libby Robin and Will Steffen, “History for the Anthropocene,” History Compass 5, no. 5 (2007): 1694 – 1719. 11. Tom Griffiths, “A Humanist on Thin Ice,” Griffith Review 29 (2010), griffithreview.com /edition-­29-prosper-­ or-­ perish/a-­ humanist-­ on-­ thin...