The Human Condition in the Anthropocene: Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Tanner Lectures
Two lectures, plus a round table:
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Running Dry: Water, People, and the Planet in Marathwada, India
This is a very interesting series on water problems in Marathwada, India. Well worth the read, and certainly important for understands the broader interconnections and logics affecting people…
Special issue on Contesting Consecrated Scientific Narratives in the Anthropocene
Some really interesting articles in the latest issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. Apologies for the formatting, and thanks to Christiana Peppard…
Water security in the Anthropocene: planetary hydrology, global finance, and the new development nexus
A bit of self-promotion for an upcoming talk at the University of East Anglia if you happen to be in the UK in late October.
New book: Love in the Anthropocene from Dale Jamieson and Bonnie Nadzam
OR Book Going Rouge This looks like a really innovative title from Dale Jamieson and Bonnie Nadzam. Love in the Anthropocene An audacious collaboration between an award-winning novelist…
Mahmoud Mamdani – Settler colonialism: then and now
Mahmoud Mamdani’s new article Settler Colonialism: then and now, is now out in Critical Inquiry, which builds on talks like this one at Princeton (which I could not…
The politics of Nature in the Anthropocene
jeremy schmidt: Worth a read for sure. Originally posted on Resource politics: by Kathleen McAfee, San Francisco State University Over the past 40-some years, Nature has entered global…
The invention of nature: new book from Andrea Wulf on Alexander von Humboldt
This looks like a fabulous new biography, and it’s already getting rave reviews. Here is a description, and hopefully a video…vimeo is always fussy about this stuff. “The…
Seeds of a good Anthropocene website/blog launched
There is a growing rift over what the Anthropocene entails. Will is be a catastrophe or does it present opportunities? One new website looking for the seeds of…
LSE has digitized Fabian society archives from 1884-2000
Some really interesting historical tracts from the Fabian society on all sorts of topics–poverty, property, labour and so on–are now available in digital format here.
When did the Anthropocene begin? A series of essays offering socialist takes
From the editor of the journal Climate and Capitalism, this piece is an interesting read. It is itself one of a series of essays being posted here by…
Emerging Expulsion Logics: Where Does it Leave Democracy?
Source: Emerging Expulsion Logics: Where Does it Leave Democracy?
New book from Ken Conca – An Unfinished Foundation: the UN and Global Environmental Governance
Now available from Oxford University Press, I like the play on UN-Finished. An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance Why is the United Nations not…
Brian Holmes on Capital Circulation in the Anthropocene
Re-blogged from: Brian Holmes on Capital Circulation in the Anthropocene
New book – After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene by Jedediah Purdy
Interesting new title from Harvard University Press can be found here: After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world…
Summer issue of the journal Daedalus is focused on water
Table of contents with abstracts, etc. is here. Introduction Anna M. Michalak, Christopher B. Field Daedalus Summer 2015, Vol. 144, No. 3: 5–6. Abstract | PDF (63 KB)…
Visiting position: ethics in the Anthropocene
See for posting here: VU University Amsterdam VU University Amsterdam is one of the leading institutions for higher education in Europe and aims to be inspiring, innovative, and…
Native Land
jeremy schmidt: A very good, and needed project. Originally posted on Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life: Native Land is a project that maps indigenous…
New book – Ecological economics for the Anthropocene: an emerging paradigm
Just out from Columbia University Press: Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene: An Emerging Paradigm Edited by Peter G. Brown and Peter Timmerman Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene provides…
Special Issue on Geographies in the Anthropocene from Geographical Research
Some interesting looking papers in the latest issue of Geographical Research on the Anthropocene, the full table of contents is here.