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Climate without Nature

A Critical Anthropology of the Anthropocene

Mona Bhan author Andrew M Bauer author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:15th Mar '18

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The Anthropocene narrative reproduces an ideological divide between Society and Nature and forecloses an inclusive politics of global warming.

This book offers a critical reading of the Anthropocene that draws on archaeological, ecological, geological, and ethnographic evidence to argue that the concept reproduces the modernist binary between society and nature, and forecloses a more inclusive politics around climate change. The authors challenge the divisions between humans as biological and geophysical agents that constitute the ontological foundations of the period. Building on contemporary critiques of capitalism, they examine different conceptions of human–environment relationships derived from anthropology to engage with the pressing problem of global warming.

ISBN: 9781108423243

Dimensions: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm

Weight: 390g

180 pages