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Discussion Description:
This introductory session explores four distinct anthropological perspectives on the Anthropocene. Drawing on different disciplinary and critical traditions, they present specific views of the Anthropocene, as well as the analytical, conceptual, methodological and ethical challenges that it poses for anthropologists and other scholars.
References
Davis, Heather, and Zoe Todd. 2017. “On the Importance of a Date, Or, Decolonizing the Anthropocene”. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 16 (4), 761-80. https://www.acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1539.
Haraway, Donna. 2015. Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin. Environmental Humanities, vol. 6, pp. 159-165.
Malm, Andreas and Alf Hornborg. 2014. ‘The geology of mankind? A critique of the Anthropocene narrative’. The Anthropocene Review Vol 1, Issue 1, pp. 62 – 69
Tsing, Anna. 2015. “In the midst of disturbance: symbiosis, coordination, history, landscape,” Association of Social Anthropologists, Raymond Firth lectures, www.theasa.org/downloads/publications/firth/firth15.pdf