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This wide ranging volume addresses the changing landscape of problems, challenges, and possibilities that emerge once the macroscopic notion of the Anthropocene is replaced with Southern Anthropocenes.
List of contents
Introduction: Southern Anthropocenes
Part 1. Emergent InterfacesIntroduction: Emergent Interfaces
1. Welcome to the End of the World: Thinking beyond the Separation of Human and Geological Temporalities
2. Tropical Cargoscapes: Sojourning Putridities in the Afterlives of Medical Necrowaste in Colombo
3. Diving into the Underwater Anthropocene: Vital Materiality and the Becoming of a Shipwreck
4. Gardens at the Edge of the Sky: Toward an Entropological Pact
Part 2. Problems of Co-existenceIntroduction: Problems of Co-existence
5. Wounded Lands, Resentful Mountains, and Mourning Maize: The Ecological Violence of War and Peace in Latin America
6. Anthropocene Relations and the 'Human activity' in Zimbabwe's Forest Reserves
7. Difference and Disobedience: Inhabiting the Southern Anthropocene
8. The Plasticene and the Global South
Part 3. Livable WorldsIntroduction: Liveable Worlds
9. To Forego: An Ethics for the Urban Anthropocene
10. Kinship in the Technosphere: From Ishimure Michiko's
Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow to Miyazaki Hayao's
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind11. For a World where Mutual Worlds Fit: Political Ontology in the Anthropocene
Part 4. Speculations Introduction: Speculations (or, how to inhabit the pluriverse?)
12. Decolonial Portals as Pedagogical Practice
13. Anthropocenes Off-Earth
14. How to Construct a Time Machine: The Anthropocene in an Indigo Vat
15. Speculation as Method: World-Building and Collective (Un-)Learning for the Anthropocene
Part 5. More-than-Human Itineraries Introduction: More-than-Human Itineraries
16. Street Feeding Stray Cats: A Multi-Species Cosmopolitics in Urban Indonesia
17. Migratory Birds, Migratory Lives: A Brackish Contact Zone in Bang Pu, Thailand
18. Artisans of the Plasticene: Polytanks and Plasticities in Urban Ghana
19. Reclaiming Country: Australian Aboriginal Walking Trails as Method
Part 6. Entangled Territories Introduction: Entangled Territories
20. Under the Plastic Tarp: Memory and a Southern Anthropocene in California's Pajaro Valley
21. Arctic Worlds in Southern Anthropocenes
22. How to Survive Medicine in the Anthropocene?
23. After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
Postscript. What Tales will We Leave the Children of Tomorrow? Story-Trading across Southern Anthropocenes
About the author
Casper Bruun Jensen is a Professor at the department of sociology and anthropology at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He is the author of
Ontologies for Developing Things (2010) and
Monitoring Movements in Development Aid with Brit Ross Winthereik (2013) and the editor of
Deleuzian Intersections: Science, Technology, Anthropology with Kjetil Rödje (2009) and
Infrastructures and Social Complexity with Penny Harvey and Atsuro Morita (2016). His work focuses on climate, environments, infrastructures, and speculative and practical ontologies.
