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Fagan, Madeleine (2019) On the dangers of an Anthropocene epoch : geological time, political time and post-human politics. Political Geography, 70 . 55 - 63. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.01.008 ISSN 0962-6298.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.01.008
Abstract
‘When’ is the Anthropocene and who are its subjects? This article seeks to demonstrate the ways in which engaging with the question of the ‘who’ of the Anthropocene also entails assumptions about the ‘when’ which rely on a transposition of geological onto historical and political periodization. The idea of the Anthropocene as a new epoch, with the associated focus on appropriate starting dates, novelty, and periodization, raises difficulties for attempts to construct alternatives to the ecologically problematic temporal discourse of modernity, the subjects thereby produced, and the critical resources with which to engage these. The inscription of these temporal boundaries in the anthropocene debate provides a framework which limits attempts to engage with the mobility of the human/nature border and associated arguments for an expanded (in both spatial and species terms) political constituency through which to engage the ecological challenges of the anthropocene. Such a framework obscures the ways in which the non-human is already integral to dominant political conceptual structures and the article proposes that instead of a focus on whether the non-human can/should be brought into an Anthropocene politics, we need first to re-examine how it already is.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Geology, Stratigraphic -- Anthropocene -- Political aspects, Time, Subjectivity, Geological time, Political ecology, Civilization, Modern, History -- Periodization | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Political Geography | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Science Inc. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0962-6298 | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 70 | ||||||||
Page Range: | 55 - 63 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.01.008 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 January 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 January 2021 |
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