The Anthropocene and the geo-political imagination: Re-writing Earth as political space

Lövbrand, Eva; Mobjörk, Malin; Söder, Rickard

doi:10.1016/j.esg.2020.100051

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“…Jego wersją jest potrzeba "zakorzenienia" (embedding oraz re -embedding), np. ludzkości, w systemie złożonym z wielu gatunków 58 . W sposób niebezpośredni apeluje o to również Bruno Latour w książce o wymownym tytule Down to Earth 59 , który można rozumieć jako żądanie zapomnienia o wcześniejszych fantazjach wzrostowych (takich jak chociażby wspomniana the sky is the limit).…”

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Zarządzanie w antropocenie, czyli co w czym i co z tego. Analiza literatury dotyczącej splotu zjawisk

Ćwikła¹

2021

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Management in the Anthropocene and What Comes Out of It. Analysis of the Literature on the Entanglement of Phenomena The Anthropocene is a term that not only conjures up all kinds of images in the mind but provides an impulse to reconsider the scope of human responsibility for man-triggered processes and its place in the system of related factors on our planet. At the same time, it is a term treated by many with ambivalence, reluctance, and caution, as it often harbingers the imminent environmental doom, the awareness of which may change the current balance of political and economic forces. Additionally, it is still involved in emphasizing the central role of the human, it is sometimes romanticized and can lead to an aestheticization of the climate catastrophe instead of taking actions resulting not from the will of heroism, but from humility. The ongoing debate on the Anthropocene in the field of management studies is of extraordinary importance, because it provides a framework for undertaking any activity – the activity which either aggravates or alleviates the negative environmental impact. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the contexts in which the scientific literature in the field of management talks about the Anthropocene and to explore the level of gravity that is assigned to management in this conventional geological and cultural era. Particular attention is paid to the dominant trends of reflection which illustrate a wide variety of attitudes towards the Anthropocene, including the one that places the Anthropocene against the background of efforts to maintain the status quo and the one that perceives it as a prelude to concocting alternative or even anarchist visions of management. The paper focuses on theoretical voices, which determined the method of analysis based on the study of language and the interpretation of narratives and metaphors.

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Zarządzanie w antropocenie, czyli co w czym i co z tego. Analiza literatury dotyczącej splotu zjawisk

Ćwikła¹

2021

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“…In seeking answers to these questions, recent work has shown that a range of knowledges are involved in the reconceptualisation of environmental governance in the Anthropocene (Lövbrand et al, 2020;Nikoleris et al, 2019). One type of knowledge which has been highlighted as having played a key role in reshaping understanding of the relationship between humanity and the non-human world is Earth System Science (ESS) (Lövbrand et al, 2009;Uhrqvist & Lövbrand, 2014).…”

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A leap of Green faith: the religious discourse of Socio-Ecological Care as an Earth system governmentality

Boettcher

2021

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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The Anthropocene is fundamentally altering concepts of human agency and responsibility in the governance of the Earth system. These concepts are paramount in discussions about governing deliberate interventions into the global climateoften referred to as 'climate engineering'. Reflections on what it might mean for humanity to 'play God' by controlling the climate have brought religious knowledge to bear in these discussions. Using climate engineering as a paradigmatic example of human interventions which may come to define the Anthropocene, this paper presents a sociology-of-knowledge discourse analysis of interviews with environmentally active multi-faith leaders and scholars. Showing how green religious discourse provides a blueprint for a governmentality of Socio-Ecological Care (SEC), the paper argues that religious knowledge has a role to play alongside other global systems of knowledge in reconceptualising the who, what, why and how of responsible and sustainable Earth system governance in the Anthropocene.

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“…In Merje Kuus' (2020, 1189) apt phrasing: "The guiding question in political geography is not as much about what boundaries are or ought to be but how particular imaginaries and practices of bounding shape political practice in a concrete everyday way". These bounding practices shape contemporary framings of global politics, suggesting that, in the novel contextualization of the Anthropocene, there are three overarching representations, those of an "endangered world", an "entangled world" and an "extractivist world" (Lovbrand et al 2020). Roughly speaking Greta Thunberg is concerned about the first two and horrified by the third, whereas Donald Trump ignores the first two and celebrates the third.…”

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Unsustainable Borders: Globalization in a Climate-Disrupted World

Dalby¹

2021

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Climate change and the responses to it reveal starkly different assumptions about borders, security and the ethical communities for whom politicians and activists speak. Starting with the contrasting perspectives of international activist Greta Thunberg and United States President Donald Trump on climate change this essay highlights the diverse political assumptions implicit in debates about contemporary globalization. Rapidly rising greenhouse gas emissions and increasingly severe climate change impacts and accelerating extinctions are the new context for scholarly work in the Anthropocene. Incorporating insights from earth system sciences and the emerging perspectives of planetary politics suggests a novel contextualization for contemporary social science which now needs to take non-stationarity and mobility as the appropriate context for investigating contemporary transformations. The challenge for social scientists and borders scholars is to think through how to link politics, ethics and bordering practices in ways that facilitate sustainability, while taking seriously the urgency of dealing with the rapidly changing material context that globalization has wrought.

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The Anthropocene and the geo-political imagination: Re-writing Earth as political space

Cited by 72 publications

References 54 publications

Zarządzanie w antropocenie, czyli co w czym i co z tego. Analiza literatury dotyczącej splotu zjawisk

Zarządzanie w antropocenie, czyli co w czym i co z tego. Analiza literatury dotyczącej splotu zjawisk

A leap of Green faith: the religious discourse of Socio-Ecological Care as an Earth system governmentality

Unsustainable Borders: Globalization in a Climate-Disrupted World

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