Anthropocenic imaginations 1 - The global lives of the orangutan

Discussion date:

11 December 2018

Discussion Description:

In this and the next session, we explored different Anthropocenic imaginations and imaginaries, looking different ways of thinking/conceiving/enacting ‘the Anthropocene’ in both scholarship and the world.

References

Cova, Victor. 2018. “Nonsecular Regrets for Infrastructure in the Ecuadorean Amazon”. In A Non-secular Anthropocene: Spirits, Specters and Other Nonhumans in a Time of Environmental Change. More-than-Human. AURA Working Papers Volume 3, 2018. N. Bubandt, ed. http://anthropocene.au.dk/working-papers-series/

Hecht, Gabrielle. “Interscalar Vehicles for an African Anthropocene: On Waste, Temporality, and Violence.” Cultural Anthropology 33, no. 1 (2018): 109–141. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca33.1.05

Szerszynski, Bronislaw. 2017. Gods of the Anthropocene: Geo-Spiritual Formations in the Earth’s New Epoch. Theory, Culture & Society, 34(2–3), 253–275. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276417691102

Thornton, T. F., & Malhi, Y. 2016. The Trickster in the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene Review, 3(3), 201–204. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019616634359.