1st Edition

Sustainability and Peaceful Coexistence for the Anthropocene

Edited By Pasi Heikkurinen Copyright 2017
213 Pages
by Routledge

213 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

213 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The rapid industrialization of societies has resulted in radical changes to the Earth’s biosphere and its local ecosystems. Climate scientists have recorded and forecasted worrying global temperature rises going back to the early twentieth century, while biologists and palaeontologists have suggested that the next mass extinction is on its way if the current rate of species loss continues. To... Read more

Notes on contributors  Foreword- Paolo Davide Farah.  Acknowledgements  Introduction  Part I CONCEPTS, CAUSES, AND CONSEQUENCES  1. On the Emergence of Peaceful Coexistence Pasi Heikkurinen  2. The Anthropocene: A Geological Perspective Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz and Colin Waters  3. Immigrants or Refugees of the Anthropocene: Adapting to or Denying Climate Change? Tarja Ketola  Part II CAPITALISM AND NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY  4. Capitalism and the Absolute Contradiction in the Anthropocene Toni Ruuska  5. Managing the Environment: Neoliberal Governmentality in the Anthropocene Jessica C. Lawrence  Part III THINKING AND THE NON-HUMAN WORLD  6. ‘It’s Getting Better and Better, Worse and Worse, Faster and Faster’: The Human Animal in the Anthropocene Todd LeVasseur  7. Scale, Noosphere Two, and the Anthropocene J. Mohorčich  Part IV POST-GROWTH SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS  8. Engaging with the Plutocene: Moving towards Degrowth and Post-Capitalistic Futures Marko Ulvila and Kristoffer Wilén  9. Conceptualizing Worker Agency for the Challenges of the Anthropocene: Examples from Recycling Work in the Global North Eeva Houtbeckers and Tiina Taipale  10. From Exploitation and Expansion to Evolutionary Coexistence: A New Realism for Life beyond the Anthropocene Karl Johan Bonnedahl  Index

Biography

Pasi Heikkurinen is a lecturer at the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) at the University of Leeds, UK.