Anthropology at the time of the Anthropocene: A personal view of what is to be studied
Latour, B. (2017). Anthropology at the time of the Anthropocene: A personal view of what is to be studied, in: Brightman, M. et al. The anthropology of sustainability: Beyond development and progress. Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability, : pp. 35-49. https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56636-2_2
In: Brightman, M.; Lewis, J. (Ed.) (2017). The anthropology of sustainability: Beyond development and progress. Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan: 978-1-137-56635-5. XVIII, 316 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56636-2, more
In: Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature: New York. , more
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| Abstract |
Although the term anthropocene proposed by geologists and climatologists has created much debate, it is hard to resist the importance it could have to define the discipline of anthropology. For a discipline dedicated to the plurality of cultures, the fact that earth scientists insist on bringing on the foreground still one more definition of the ‘anthropos’, this time considered as a new force of nature, has enormous consequences for the discipline. The chapter lists several of those consequences that could reopen a conversation between ‘physical’ and ‘cultural’ anthropology and, of special relevance to the vast question of ‘sustainability’, reopen the ways in which anthropology could be politically relevant. |
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