Main entry:

Bonneuil, Christophe, author.

Title & Author:

The shock of the Anthropocene : the earth, history, and us / Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz ; translated by David Fernbach.

Publication:

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2016.

Description:

xiv, 306 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
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.
Translated from French.

Summary:

"Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the "Anthropocene" Scientists tell us that the Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. We are not facing simply 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 new account of modernity that shakes up many accepted ideas: on the supposedly recent date of "environmental awareness," on previous challenges to industrialism, on the manufacture of consumerism and the energy "transition," as well as on the role of the military in environmental destruction. Through a dialogue between science and history, the authors draw an ecological balance sheet of a developmental model that has become unsustainable, and explore paths for living and acting politically in the Anthropocene"-- Provided by publisher.
"Scientists tell us that the Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. We are not facing simply 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 new account of modernity that shakes up many accepted ideas: on the supposedly recent date of "environmental awareness," on previous challenges to industrialism, on the manufacture of consumerism and the energy "transition," as well as on the role of the military in environmental destruction. Through a dialogue between science and history, the authors draw an ecological balance sheet of a developmental model that has become unsustainable, and explore paths for living and acting politically in the Anthropocene"-- Provided by publisher.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9781784780791 (hardback)
1784780790 (hardback)
(us ebook)
9781784780814
(uk ebook)
9781784780821
1784785032
9781784785031

Subject:

Human ecology.
Nature Effect of human beings on.
Global environmental change.
Écologie humaine.
Êtres humains Influence sur la nature.
Changement global (Environnement)
human ecology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Human Geography.
Ecologia humana.
Home Influència sobre la natura.
Canvis climàtics.
Humanekologi.
Människans påverkan på naturen.
Klimatförändringar.
Anthropocene Epoch

Form/genre:

Electronic books.

Added entries:

Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292110
Call No.: BIB 236151
Status: Available