1st Edition
Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene Re-conceptualising human–nature relations
By Lesley Head
Copyright 2016
196 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
194 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
194 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The Anthropocene is a volatile and potentially catastrophic age demanding new ways of thinking about relations between humans and the nonhuman world. This book explores how responses to environmental challenges are hampered by a grief for a pristine and certain past, rather than considering the scale of the necessary socioeconomic change for a 'future' world. Conceptualisations of human-nature... Read more
1. The spectre of catastrophe 2. Grief will be our companion 3. Past, present and future temporalities 4. More than human, more than nature 5. Practising hope 6. Rethinking agriculture, rethinking Anthropocene 7. Living with weeds 8. Governing the ungovernable? 9. Beyond fortress and sprawl: retrofitting cities, suburbs and households 10. The Anthropoceneans
Biography
Lesley Head is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Head of the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia. This book was written while she was Director of the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong, Australia.
"The book is important and timely. A main strength is that Head problematises the often rather shallow plea for more positive emotions in climate-change communication and education, for instance." - Maria OjalaÖrebro University, Örebro, Sweden,Local Environment The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability
