Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title Anthropocene or capitalocene? : nature, history, and the crisis of capitalism / Edited by Jason W. Moore.

Publication Info. [Oakland, CA] : Pm Press, 2016.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Kairos
Kairos (PM Press (Firm))
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans--all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity's relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition? Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these questions from a dynamic group of leading critical scholars who challenge the conventional practice of dividing historical change and contemporary reality into "Nature" and "Society" demonstrating the possibilities offered by a more nuanced and connective view of human environment-making, joined at every step with and within the biosphere. In distinct registers, the authors frame their discussions within a politics of hope that signal the possibilities for transcending capitalism, broadly understood as a "world-ecology" that joins nature, capital, and power as a historically evolving whole.
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism -- Jason W. Moore; Part I: The Anthropocene and its Discontents: Toward Chthulucene?; One: On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature -- Eileen Crist; Two: Staying with the Trouble: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene -- Donna J. Haraway; Part II: Histories of the Capitalocene; Three: The Rise of Cheap Nature -- Jason W. Moore; Four: Accumulating Extinction: Planetary Catastrophism in the Necrocene -- Justin McBrien
Five: The Capitalocene, or, Geoengineering against Capitalism's Planetary Boundaries -- Elmar AltvaterPart III: Cultures, States, and Environment-Making; Six: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and the Problem of Culture -- Daniel Hartley; Seven: Environment-Making in the Capitalocene: Political Ecology of the State -- Christian Parenti; References; Contributors; Index
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Human ecology.
Human ecology.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Global environmental change.
Global environmental change.
Nature conservation.
Capitalism.
Nature conservation.
Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
Capitalism.
Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
human ecology.
Added Author Parenti, Christian, contributor of essay.
Crist, Eileen C., contributor of essay.
McBrien, Justin, contributor of essay.
Haraway, Donna Jeanne, contributor of essay.
Altvater, Elmar, contributor of essay.
Hartley, Daniel, contributor of essay.
Moore, Jason W., author, editor.
Other Form: Print version: 9781629631486 1629631485 (OCoLC)922909586
ISBN 9781629632896 (electronic book)
1629632899 (electronic book)
9781629632575 (electronic book)
1629632570 (electronic book)
9781629631486 (paperback)
1629631485 (paperback)