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Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
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Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
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This edited collection explores the relationships between humans
and nature at a time when the traditional sense of separation
between human cultures and a natural wilderness is being eroded.
The 'Anthropocene,' whose literal translation is the 'Age of Man,'
is one way of marking these planetary changes to the Earth system.
Global climate change and rising sea levels are two prominent
examples of how nature can no longer be simply thought of as
something outside and removed from humans (and vice versa). This
collection applies the concepts of ecology and entanglement to
address pressing political, social, and cultural issues surrounding
human relationships with the nonhuman world in terms of 'working
with nature.' It asks, are there more or less preferable ways of
working with nature? What forms and practices might this work take
and how do we distinguish between them? Is the idea of 'nature'
even sufficient to approach such questions, or do we need to
reconsider using the term nature in favour of terms such as
environments, ecologies or the broad notion of the non-human world?
How might we forge perspectives and enact practices which build
resilience and community across species and spaces, constructing
relationships with nonhumans which go beyond discourses of
pollution, degradation and destruction? Bringing together a range
of contributors from across multiple academic disciplines,
activists and artists, this book examines how these questions might
help us understand and assess the different ways in which humans
transform, engage and interact with the nonhuman world.
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