Wild Anthropocene: Literature and Multispecies Justice in Deep Time (1) (Routledge Environmental Humanities)

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Synopsis
Wild Anthropocene examines four key areas—the politics of deep time, neoliberalism's socio-ecological impacts, global population growth and inter-species entanglement—to demonstrate how literature illuminates progressive solutions to Anthropocene challenges. The book argues that technological mitigation of contemporary environmental crises must be complimented by a politics committed to multispecies justice. Central to this new politics is the project of reimagining our relationship with time as something other than its status within capitalist praxis.The book brings together poetry and fiction written by a diverse range of writers to demonstrate how contemporary literature addresses important connections between social oppression and environmental issues. It also critiques techno-managerial visions of the future that celebrate humanity's ever-growing "control" over ecosystems by examining multiple sources of wildness (temporal, environmental and technological) that expose the problematic ideology underwriting such aspirations. Readers will be introduced to a way of understanding the Anthropocene that, while being informed by recent discoveries in earth science and evolutionary biology, also makes a strong case for humanities-based understanding of environmental politics.This interdisciplinary text will be a useful addition to theoretical discussions on the Anthropocene for scholars, researchers and students in the environmental humanities, literary studies, ecocriticism and environmental philosophy.
Copyright:
2025

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Publisher Quality
Book Size:
196 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040300824
Related ISBNs:
9781003243946, 9781032153902, 9781040300770
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Louise Economides
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Animals, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature, Language Arts, Earth Sciences
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