Climate without Nature
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This book offers a critical reading of the Anthropocene that draws on archaeological, ecological, geological, and ethnographic evidence to argue that the concept reproduces the modernist binary between society and nature, and forecloses a more inclusive politics around climate change. The authors challenge the divisions between humans as biological and geophysical agents that constitute the ontological foundations of the period. Building on contemporary critiques of capitalism, they examine different conceptions of human–environment relationships derived from anthropology to engage with the pressing problem of global warming.
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Contemporary climate change is also influenced by the ongoing effects of much earlier land use, from large-scale deforestation to the thousands of water reservoirs constructed for herd animals and irrigated agriculture between 3000 and 500 years ago in South Asia that still contribute significantly to atmospheric methane today.
“Yet contemporary climate change is also influenced by the ongoing effects of much earlier land use, from large-scale deforestation to the thousands of water reservoirs constructed for herd animals and irrigated agriculture between 3000 and 500 years ago in South Asia that still contribute significantly to atmospheric methane today”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe isochronous global approach to defining the Anthropocene inevitably represents humans as a homogenous global force and masks, conflates, and suppresses evidence of significant social differences and complexities that are obvious at other scales; these distinctions are generally lost or much obscured in attempts to develop a globally synchronous approach to the Anthropocene.
“The isochronous global approach to defining the Anthropocene inevitably represents humans as a homogenous global force, thereby masking, conflating, and suppressing evidence of significant social differences and complexities that are obvious when viewed at other scales.”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredSimply reframing the Anthropocene as an event will not resolve all the issues that scholars have raised about its conception.
“While simply reframing the Anthropocene as an event will not resolve all the issues that these scholars have raised about its conception (e.g., Bauer and Bhan 2018)”
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Self-citationA practical solution: the Anthropocene is a geological event, not a formal epoch
Gibbard, P. L., Bauer, A. M., Edgeworth, M., Ruddiman, W. F., Gill, J. L., Merritts, D. J., Finney, S. C., Edwards, L. E., Walker, M. J. C., Maslin, M., et al. (2022) · Episodes · doi:10.18814/epiiugs/2021/021029 · Cited by 100 · see citing works
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- Authors
- Bauer, A. M., & Bhan, M.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- DePauw University (US)
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2018-03-09
- OpenAlex
- W3015003351
- Cited by
- 43
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 5
- FWCI
- 17.77
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies
- Keywords
- Anthropocene, climate change, human-environment relations, critique of capitalism, global warming, human agency, environmental politics, critique of modernism
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