Multiple Anthropocenes: pluralizing space–time as a response to ‘the Anthropocene’

Amoureux, Jack L.; Reddy, V. Ananda

doi:10.1080/14747731.2020.1864178

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“…In contrast to such descriptions, a growing body of literature has attempted to make visible the varied practices and forms through which climate change and the Anthropocene is met across the globe. Rather than assume that the Anthropocene's heterogeneity entails 'a single set of normative implications' 103 , or, for that matter, that a totalising vision of Modernity overdetermines all attempts at facing climate change, this literature has sought to give testament to 'the multiplicity of experiences of climate change and extinction along with visions of political and ethical response' 104 . As Audra Mitchell has argued, 'between the two extremes suggested by our interlocutors -a radical, eliminative posthumanism and a relapse into unreflective humanismthere exists a wide space of relations' 105 .…”

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Critiquing Latour’s Explanation of Climate Change Denial: Moving Beyond the Modernity/Anthropocene Binary

Wrangel

Causevic

2021

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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The concept of the Anthropocene has reintroduced politics of denial at the centre of critical studies of international relations. This article interrogates Bruno Latour’s explanation of climate change denial with reference to an ontological difference between Modernity and the Anthropocene, together with his advocacy for a new language beyond the Modern gaze. Our aims are twofold: to disclose how Latour’s posthuman critique risk reproducing prevalent forms of climate change denial in the global North, and to question what falls outside Latour’s dualistic frame: the heterogenous ways through which climate change and the Anthropocene is met across the globe; the ambiguous relation with nature through which modernity was formed; the modernist genealogy of Anthropocene discourse, and lastly how discourses of global governance have absorbed posthumanist critique in its attempt to naturalise postcolonial power relations. At stake, we argue, is critical theory’s paradoxical complicity in the denialism it seeks to critique.

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Critiquing Latour’s Explanation of Climate Change Denial: Moving Beyond the Modernity/Anthropocene Binary

Wrangel

Causevic

2021

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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“…A taken-forgranted geographical context such as a national territory or locality only allows circular self-referencing, ''proving' itself by means of its own production, its 'context'' (Walker, 2012, p. 8). In this sense, analysis becomes implicit or marginalized in the name of proving history, context, or grammars and logics, as in the epoch debates of setting the 'date,' the 'Anthropocene,' and the 'Capitalocene' (Amoureux & Reddy, 2021;Gill, 2021;Kolia, 2021) as well as identifying geographies that confirm abstract notions of genocide and exploitation. The stakes in these debates are not just to get the date (origin or otherwise) right by either presupposing it or injecting it at some point in the future; the goal is to see whether it is possible for the invention of existence or that moment 'whose destination cannot be foreseen, or anticipated, but only repeatedly traveled, and, therefore, not future at all' (Marriott, 2011a, p. 54), that 'moment of inventiveness' (Marriott, 2011a, pp.…”

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About time: climate change and inventions of the decolonial, planetarity and radical existence

Agathangelou

Killian

2021

Globalizations

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This article focuses on the underlying transformation produced by social ecological crisis-a transformation in the time scales for human agency. First, we trace how authors who conjunct readings on the question of climate change and time open up the space to question the race-based temporal technologies and their entanglement with racial planetary-capital regimes. Second, we engage with transition and adaptation. Transition and adaptation are colonial and accumulation temporal enabling conditions for the emergence, development and transmutation of the incommensurate to capitalization of the planetary. Finally, we conclude by arguing that, instead of focusing on capital's attempts to make its most 'fatal leap' between its assumed logical topologies and 'historical' cartographies by reanimating 'dead' critiques, we follow Fanon and attempt to introduce 'invention into existence,' the reactivation of living energies, their flux, and their improvisations for the conditions for a planetary as a decolonial project, not as an accomplished fact.

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“…These attempts to establish the Anthropocene as a new geological era and to demarcate its timeframe have been punctuated by calls for a more critical evaluation of the term's conceptual and operational purchase (Castree, 2017;Haraway et al, 2016). These have led some to reflect on the Anthropocene's 'polemical force' to destabilise normative categorisation (Clark & Yussof, 2017), some to propose multiple 'Anthropocenes' (Mathews, 2020;Tsing et al, 2019) located in multiple spatio-temporalities (Amoureux & Reddy, 2021), others to reject its imperialising, globalising, and de-politicising tendencies altogether (Escobar, 2019). Alternate organising concepts and terminologies have been developed -'Anthropo-obscene' (Swyngedouw & Ernston, 2018), 'Capitalocene' (Moore, 2017), 'Plantationocene', and 'Chthulucene' (Haraway et al, 2016), and 'Technocene' (Haff, 2014;Hornborg, 2015) -which, for their proponents, capture the driving processes, relations, and logics of this era.…”

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The broiler chicken and the Anthropocene: Using critical nexus thinking to unpack the geographies of Gallus gallus domesticus

Coles

2022

Geographical Journal

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A key scientific publication demonstrates that the bio‐physical composition of the broiler chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) represents a signal of the Anthropocene. This finding contributes to a wider body of evidence that locates the beginning of the Anthropocene in the mid‐20th century, and is part of a broader intellectual project that seeks to establish and demarcate the Anthropocene as a new geological era. This paper takes a different tack. Treating Gallus gallus as an objective corollary for the Anthropocene, it positions the broiler chicken and the Anthropocene as an ontologically emergent nexus comprised of social–spatial relations, materialities, and practices. The paper then adopts critical nexus thinking to trace out the key relations and materialities, and their points of convergence, and underpinning extractivist ontologies that assemble into the chicken's body. Relations of particular concern include the processes that embody surplus value into the corporality of the chicken; the rationalisation and transformation of territories and landscapes into productive units of space, and the tightly coupled, interconnected flows of relations, materials, and coordinating technologies that comprise the ‘supply chain’. It argues that by using critical nexus thinking to identify and articulate these relations that assemble into Gallus gallus, it renders the Anthropocene legible. Such legibility in turn fosters geographical awareness and responsibility that might lead to the changes necessary to address the large‐scale spatial inequalities from which the era stems and redress the consequences that the era might otherwise engender.

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Multiple Anthropocenes: pluralizing space–time as a response to ‘the Anthropocene’

Cited by 15 publications

References 72 publications

Critiquing Latour’s Explanation of Climate Change Denial: Moving Beyond the Modernity/Anthropocene Binary

Critiquing Latour’s Explanation of Climate Change Denial: Moving Beyond the Modernity/Anthropocene Binary

About time: climate change and inventions of the decolonial, planetarity and radical existence

The broiler chicken and the Anthropocene: Using critical nexus thinking to unpack the geographies of Gallus gallus domesticus

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