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Asymmetric flows, critical zones, and zero-carbon citizens.
- Source :
- Critique of Anthropology; Jun2016, Vol. 36 Issue 2, p212-220, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- In 2000, a short scientific paper by Crutzen and Stoermer suggested the Holocene epoch had been supplanted by a new age, the anthropocene, in which human activities had come to rival the great forces of nature in shaping geological and earth system processes. Out of this, a new transdisciplinary research area has emerged, drawing together social and natural scientists, historians, philosophers, and artists, amongst others. In November 2015, as part of a parallel series of events associated with the COP21 United Nations climate change meetings in Paris, the Collège de France, under the auspices of anthropologist Philippe Descola, hosted a two-day conference, ‘How to think the anthropocene? Anthropologists, philosophers, and sociologists facing climate change’. This article summarises some of the main presentations and ideas, including relational aspects between speakers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HOLOCENE Epoch
ANTHROPOCENE Epoch
CLIMATE change
ANTHROPOLOGISTS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0308275X
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Critique of Anthropology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 115494771
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X16641510