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Anthropos and the material

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The destructive effects of modern industrial societies have shaped the planet in such profound ways that many argue for the existence of a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene. This claim brings into relief a set of challenges that have deep implications for how relation…

Anthropos and the material

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Presenting ethnographic case studies from across the globe, the contributors to Anthropos and the Material question and complicate long-held understandings of the divide between humans and things by examining encounters between the human and the nonhuman in numerous social, cult…

The Holocene: an environmental history

by Roberts, Neil

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Revised and updated to take account of the most recent advances, this 2nd edition includes material on scientific progress in research into climate, disturbance effects and landscape change, and recent ideas on the causes of lake salinity.

The Holocene: an environmental history

by Roberts, Neil

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Revised and updated to take account of the most recent advances, this 2nd edition includes material on scientific progress in research into climate, disturbance effects and landscape change, and recent ideas on the causes of lake salinity.

Ethics and politics of space for the anthropocene

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"Featuring an international, multidisciplinary set of contributors, this thought-provoking book reimagines established narratives of the Anthropocene to allow differences in regions and contexts to be taken seriously, emphasising the importance of localised and situated knowledg…

The anthropocene in global media: neutralizing the risk

fromRoutledge studies in environmental communication and media

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This book offers the first systematic study of how the Anthropocene' is reported in mass media globally, drawing parallels between the use (or misuse) of the term and the media's attitude towards the associated issues of climate change and global warming. Identifying the potenti…

Planetary health: safeguarding human health and the environment in …

by Frumkin, Howard, Haines, Andy

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« We live in unprecedented times - the Anthropocene - defined by far-reaching human impacts on the natural systems that underpin civilisation. Planetary Health explores the many environmental changes that threaten to undermine progress in human health, and explains how these cha…

Animals in our midst: the challenges of co-existing with animals in the…

fromInternational Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Fo…

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This Open Access book brings together authoritative voices in animal and environmental ethics, who address the many different facets of changing human-animal relationships in the Anthropocene. As we are living in complex times, the issue of how to establish meaningful relationsh…

An anthropology of deep time: geological temporality and social life

by Irvine, Richard

fromNew departures in anthropology

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"Ground that was once the floor of the sea; sea rising up and snatching away ground. Folding hills, coastlines shaped and reshaped. There is nothing static about the terrain upon which we live and on which we depend. This book seeks to understand human life in relation to these …

An anthropology of deep time: geological temporality and social life

by Irvine, Richard D.G

fromNew departures in anthropology

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Rethinking social theory through a rich engagement with landscape and the history of geology, this book explores our human relationship with the timescale of geological formation and shows how social life becomes disconnected from the ecological and geological rhythms on which i…