Urgency in the anthropocene /
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Author / Creator: | Lynch, Amanda H., author. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018] |
Description: | xii, 238 pages ; 23 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11709227 |
Other authors / contributors: | Veland, Siri, author. |
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ISBN: | 9780262038706 0262038706 9780262535762 0262535769 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary: | Is this the Anthropocene? The age in which humans have become a geological force, leaving indelible signs of their activities on the earth. The narrative of the Anthropocene so far is characterized by extremes, emergencies, and exceptions-a tale of apocalypse by our own hands. The sense of ongoing crisis emboldens policy and governance responses that challenge established systems of sovereignty and law. The once unacceptable-geoengineering technology, for example, or authoritarian decision making-are now anticipated and even demanded. In this book, Amanda Lynch and Siri Veland propose a reframing of the Anthropocene-seeing it not as a race against catastrophe but as an age of emerging coexistence with earth system variability. |
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