Prologue: The Anthropocene and Geography
PART I. Welcome to the Anthropocene
1. The Anthropocene Event
2. Geographies of the Anthropocene
PART II. Geo-histories
3. The Colonial Anthropocene: Empires and Planetary Transformation
4. The Industrial Anthropocene
5. Geographies of the Great Acceleration
PART III. Geo-politics
6. Scaling Justice in the Anthropocene
7. Wild Lives: How Should We Relate to the Non-human?
8. Governing Geo: Geographies of Security and Resilience
PART IV. Geo-futures
9. Anthropocene Aesthetics
10. Placing the Future
Epilogue: What future for the Earth?
Biography
Martin Mahony is Associate Professor in Human Geography in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK. His background is in human geography and science & technology studies (STS), and his research concerns the co-production of space, knowledge and power in the history and politics of environmental change.
Noel Castree is a Professor of Geography at Manchester University, UK; he is also an Honorary Professorial Fellow at UTS in Sydney. His main research interests are the political economy of environmental change and, most recently, the role of expertise in shaping human responses to Earth-wide changes to the biophysical world. He is author of What Future For The Earth? (2026).
