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The shock of the anthropocene : the earth, history and us / Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz ; translated by David Fernbach.

The shock of the anthropocene : the earth, history and us / Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz ; translated by David Fernbach.
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Name Bonneuil, Christophe author.
Uniform title Événement anthropocène English.
Title The shock of the anthropocene : the earth, history and us / Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz ; translated by David Fernbach.
Published London : Verso, 2017.
©2017.
Description xiv, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents PART ONE WHAT'S IN A WORD? -- ch. 1 Welcome to the Anthropocene -- ch. 2 Thinking with Gaia: Towards Environmental Humanities -- PART TWO SPEAKING FOR THE EARTH, GUIDING HUMANITY -- Deconstructing the Geocratic Grand Narrative of the Anthropocene -- ch. 3 Clio, the Earth and the Anthropocenologists -- ch. 4 Who Is the Anthropos? -- PART THREE WHAT HISTORIES FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE? -- ch. 5 Thermocene: A Political History of CO2 -- ch. 6 Thanatocene: Power and Ecocide -- ch. 7 Phagocene: Consuming the Planet -- ch. 8 Phronocene: Grammars of Environmental Reflexivity -- ch. 9 Agnotocene: Externalizing Nature, Economizing the World -- ch. 10 Capitalocene: A Combined History of Earth System and World-Systems -- ch. 11 Polemocene: Resisting the Deterioration of the Earth since 1750 -- Conclusion: Surviving and Living the Anthropocene.
Summary "The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a “human species” that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent “environmental awareness,” about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, The Shock of the Anthropocene dissects a new theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch."--
Donated by Sophia Cai ;
Language note Translated from French.
Subjects Human ecology
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Global environmental change
Added Names Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste author.
Fernbach, David translator.
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