1st Edition

Climate Change and Anthropos Planet, people and places

By Linda Connor Copyright 2016
224 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Anthropos, in the sense of species as well as cultures and ethics, locates humans as part of much larger orders of existence – fundamental when thinking about climate change. This book offers a new way of exploring the significance of locality and lives in the epoch of the Anthropocene, a time when humans confront the limits of our control over nature. Many scholars now write about the ethics,... Read more
Part 1: The Ecocosmic Sphere 1. Precarious places in a warming world  2. Life and time in a carboniferous zone  Part 2: Quotidian Worlds  3. Being in the weather  4. Living environmental change  Part 3: Counterpoints  5. Climate Activation  6. Fragile futurity

Biography

Linda H. Connor is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, Australia.