Less Than One But More Than Many: Anthropocene as Science Fiction and Scholarship-in-the-Making

Swanson, Heather Anne; Bubandt, Nils; Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt

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“…A most practical distillation of this arises in the discussion of a 'good' versus 'bad' Anthropocene (Hamilton, 2016 heating cannot but manifest the ongoing structural logics and momentum of inhuman, world-rending forces; for the latter, it can activate encounters with more-than-hu-2 Este cuerpo de literatura está creciendo y encamina de muchas formas diferentes la cuestión de lo real y de lo realmente "de otro modo". Ver, por ejemplo: Boes & Marshall, 2014;Schalk, 2018;Swanson et al, 2015. 3 Para un estudio breve acerca del debate del Antropoceno, ver: Bonneuil & Fressoz, 2016. Para una evaluación importante de los supuestos históricos del concepto, ver: Davis & Todd, 2017. discusión de un Antropoceno "bueno" contra uno "malo" (Hamilton, 2016).…”

Section: The Conference Call: Honoring Le Guin In the Anthropoceneunclassified

Writing on Writing is a Method of Encounter. Correspondences with Ursula K. Le Guin and the World [Redux]

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Antolinos-Basso

2020

Diseña

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Section: The Conference Call: Honoring Le Guin In the Anthropoceneunclassified

Writing on Writing is a Method of Encounter. Correspondences with Ursula K. Le Guin and the World [Redux]

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Antolinos-Basso

2020

Diseña

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“…Debates over the ontological significance, theoretical implications, and practical challenges of “living in the Anthropocene” (Kress & Stine, ) have enlivened scholarship in geography and allied social sciences (for reviews, see Castree, ; Castree, ; Castree, ; Cook, Rickards, & Rutherfurd, ; Dalby, ; Lorimer, ; Schlosser, ; Swanson, Bubandt, & Tsing, ). Determining a date when humans irrevocably became a geological force demands and promises a union between social and physical sciences (Ellis, Maslin, Boivin, & Bauer, ).…”

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Anthropocene, Capitalocene, … Plantationocene?: A Manifesto for Ecological Justice in an Age of Global Crises

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The “Plantationocene” has gained traction in the environmental humanities as a way of conceptualizing the current era otherwise nominated as the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or the Chthulucene. For Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing, and their interlocutors, the concept suggests that our current ecological crisis is rooted in logics of environmental modernization, homogeneity, and control, which were developed on historical plantations. This paper argues that, while there is indeed a need to analyze the ways in which the plantation past shapes the present, current discussions of the Plantationocene have several crucial limitations. Here, we focus on two: first, the current multispecies framing conceptualizes the plantation largely as a system of human control over nature, obscuring the centrality of racial politics; and second, the emerging Plantationocene discussion has yet to meaningfully engage with the wide variety of existing critiques of the plantation mode of development. Thus, we draw on a deep well of Black geographic and ecological work that provides a powerful challenge to the ongoing colonial–racial legacies of the plantation, prompting consideration of white supremacy, capitalist development, and (mis)characterizations of what it means to be human. These approaches not only reveal a more nuanced and comprehensive analysis of the role of the plantation in current global crises but also highlight ongoing struggles and the possibilities of ecological justice in the future.

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“…Eine krisenhafte und dringliche Sicht auf MenschUmwelt-Beziehungen im Zeitalter des Anthropozäns 2 (Crutzen, 2002;Swanson et al, 2015;Gibson-Graham und Roelvink, 2010;Steffen et al, 2015;Latour, 2014) radikalisiert die Suche nach relationalen Ansätzen für die Politische Ökologie. Die Dualismen von Mensch-Natur, Natur-Kultur und Naturwissenschaft-Sozialwissenschaft lösen sich, beeinflusst durch Impulse aus STS, Ethnologie sowie feministischer und postkolonialer Theorie, in neuen materialistischen Ansätzen auf.…”

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“…Relationale Ansätze stehen im Zusammenhang mit einem neuerlichen Interesse an ontologischen Fragestellungen in der geistes-und sozialwissenschaftlichen Umweltforschung (Leff, 2015;Escobar, 2008;Descola, 2013;Viveiros de Castro, 2015;Kohn, 2015 (Swanson et al, 2015). Der Begriff zieht unseres Erachtens nach berechtigte Kritik auf sich, da er von einem homogenen "Anthropos" auszugehen scheint und, ohne auf Klassen und geographische Ungleichheiten einzugehen, die undifferenzierte Gattung "Mensch" zum Verursacher der gegenwärtigen Krise erklärt (Moore, 2015:169-173).…”

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Land als Ressource, Boden und Landschaft: Materialität, Relationalität und neue Agrarfragen in der Politischen Ökologie

Münster

Poerting

2016

Geogr. Helv.

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Kurzfassung. The Anthropocene reorients the agrarian question as an ecological question of planetary scale. Rather than resolving the inherent tension between political economy and the biophysical environment by moving political ecology closer to the natural sciences, we propose an active engagement with impulses from the environmental humanities and anthropological engagements with alternative ontologies. The relational political ecology of agriculture that we outline in this article draws on feminist science studies, multispecies ethnography, new materialism and critical geography. We show the relevance of a relational approach to agriculture as a natureculture entanglement by reviewing three conceptualisations of land in political ecology in relation to our anthropological research in South India (Münster) and geographical research in Northern Pakistan (Poerting). Notions of land as resource, land as soil and land as landscape respectively exemplify shifts in theoretical and political engagements with agriculture in the Anthropocene. A relational political ecology of agriculture incorporates these theoretical sensibilities and brings them in conversation with ontological politics of agro-ecological movements who respond to the variegated crises of the anthropocene. We suggest a perspective on agrarian landscape assemblages as coproduced by histories of capitalist transformations and the (affective) relations between humans, other species and materials.

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Less Than One But More Than Many: Anthropocene as Science Fiction and Scholarship-in-the-Making

Cited by 77 publications

References 5 publications

Writing on Writing is a Method of Encounter. Correspondences with Ursula K. Le Guin and the World [Redux]

Writing on Writing is a Method of Encounter. Correspondences with Ursula K. Le Guin and the World [Redux]

Anthropocene, Capitalocene, … Plantationocene?: A Manifesto for Ecological Justice in an Age of Global Crises

Land als Ressource, Boden und Landschaft: Materialität, Relationalität und neue Agrarfragen in der Politischen Ökologie

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