The shock of the Anthropocene : the earth, history, and us /
By: Bonneuil, Christophe [author.].
Contributor(s): Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste [author.].
Publisher: London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2016Description: xiv, 306 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781784780791; 9781784780791:; 1784780790; 1784785032; 9781784785031.Uniform titles: Événement anthropocène. Subject(s): Human ecology | Nature -- Effect of human beings on | Global environmental changeDDC classification: 304.2 BONItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 304.2 BON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0082552 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part One. What's in a word? 1. Welcome to the anthropocene ; 2. Thinking with Gaia : towards environmental humanities -- Part Two. Speaking for the earth, guiding humanity : deconstructing the geocratic grand narrative of the anthropocene. 3. Clio, the earth and the anthropocenologists ; 4. Who is the anthropos? -- Part Three. What histories for the anthropocene? 5. Thermocene : a political history of CO₂ ; 6. Thanatocene : power and ecocide ; 7. Phagocene : consuming the planet ; 8. Phronocene : grammars of environmental reflexivity ; 9. Agnotocene : externalizing nature, economizing the world ; 10. Capitalocene : a combined history of earth system and world-systems ; 11. Polemocene : resisting the deterioration of the earth since 1750 -- Conclusion: Surviving and living the anthropocene.
The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a 'human species' that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes a critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent 'environmental awareness', about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction.
Translated from French.