Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene

Working with Nature

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Ecology, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Cover of the book Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene by Octavia Cade, Sean Cubitt, Charles Dawson, Victoria Grieves, James Holcombe, Ann O’Brien, Christopher Orchard, David Orchard, Peter Orchard, Jacob Otter, Gareth Stanton, Sharon Stevens, Sita Venkateswar, Lexington Books
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Author: Octavia Cade, Sean Cubitt, Charles Dawson, Victoria Grieves, James Holcombe, Ann O’Brien, Christopher Orchard, David Orchard, Peter Orchard, Jacob Otter, Gareth Stanton, Sharon Stevens, Sita Venkateswar ISBN: 9781498535700
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: December 21, 2016
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Octavia Cade, Sean Cubitt, Charles Dawson, Victoria Grieves, James Holcombe, Ann O’Brien, Christopher Orchard, David Orchard, Peter Orchard, Jacob Otter, Gareth Stanton, Sharon Stevens, Sita Venkateswar
ISBN: 9781498535700
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: December 21, 2016
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

This edited collection explores the relationships between humans and nature at a time when the traditional sense of separation between human cultures and a natural wilderness is being eroded. The ‘Anthropocene,’ whose literal translation is the ‘Age of Man,’ is one way of marking these planetary changes to the Earth system. Global climate change and rising sea levels are two prominent examples of how nature can no longer be simply thought of as something outside and removed from humans (and vice versa).

This collection applies the concepts of ecology and entanglement to address pressing political, social, and cultural issues surrounding human relationships with the nonhuman world in terms of ‘working with nature.’ It asks, are there more or less preferable ways of working with nature? What forms and practices might this work take and how do we distinguish between them? Is the idea of ‘nature’ even sufficient to approach such questions, or do we need to reconsider using the term nature in favour of terms such as environments, ecologies or the broad notion of the non-human world? How might we forge perspectives and enact practices which build resilience and community across species and spaces, constructing relationships with nonhumans which go beyond discourses of pollution, degradation and destruction? Bringing together a range of contributors from across multiple academic disciplines, activists and artists, this book examines how these questions might help us understand and assess the different ways in which humans transform, engage and interact with the nonhuman world.

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This edited collection explores the relationships between humans and nature at a time when the traditional sense of separation between human cultures and a natural wilderness is being eroded. The ‘Anthropocene,’ whose literal translation is the ‘Age of Man,’ is one way of marking these planetary changes to the Earth system. Global climate change and rising sea levels are two prominent examples of how nature can no longer be simply thought of as something outside and removed from humans (and vice versa).

This collection applies the concepts of ecology and entanglement to address pressing political, social, and cultural issues surrounding human relationships with the nonhuman world in terms of ‘working with nature.’ It asks, are there more or less preferable ways of working with nature? What forms and practices might this work take and how do we distinguish between them? Is the idea of ‘nature’ even sufficient to approach such questions, or do we need to reconsider using the term nature in favour of terms such as environments, ecologies or the broad notion of the non-human world? How might we forge perspectives and enact practices which build resilience and community across species and spaces, constructing relationships with nonhumans which go beyond discourses of pollution, degradation and destruction? Bringing together a range of contributors from across multiple academic disciplines, activists and artists, this book examines how these questions might help us understand and assess the different ways in which humans transform, engage and interact with the nonhuman world.

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