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Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalisation, Empire, Environment and Critique
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In this paper, three aspects of contemporary politics at the biggest of scales are subject to critique: the assumptions underlying the War on Terror, globalisation, and the notion of environment.Abstract:
Critique is about challenging the taken for granted categories in scholarly and political discourse. Three aspects of contemporary politics at the biggest of scales are subject to critique here: the assumptions underlying the War on Terror, globalisation and the notion of environment. The global War on Terror is not really global, and might well be better understood by using imperial analogies from the past. Globalisation, once its implicit geographies are directly addressed, might be better understood as a matter of glurbanisation. Likewise earth system science, and its suggestion that human actions are now on such a large scale that we live in a new geological period, the Anthropocene, requires us to rethink assumptions of our living within an external environment. Taken together these criticisms of the taken for granted spatial categories of contemporary political life raise big questions for how geography is now understood and how we might teach it in the future. Such an analysis also suggests the continued importance of critique as an intellectual practice in the academy.read more
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We Have Never Been Modern
TL;DR: This article argued that we are modern as long as we split our political process in two - between politics proper, and science and technology, which allowed the formidable expansion of the Western empires.
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Geology of mankind
TL;DR: It seems appropriate to assign the term ‘Anthropocene’ to the present, in many ways human-dominated, geological epoch, supplementing the Holocene—the warm period of the past 10–12 millennia.
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Planet of Slums
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Ecosystems and Human well-being
Colin D. Butler,Robert Chambers,Kanchan Chopra,Partha Dasgupta,Anantha Kumar Duraiappah,Pushpam Kumar,Anthony J. McMichael,Julian Wells +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify direct and indirect pathways between ecosystem change and human well-being, whether it be positive or negative, and they argue that ecological security warrants recognition as a sixth freedom of equal weight with participative freedom, economic opportunities, transparency guarantees, and protective security.