This book is devoted to the Anthropocene, the period of unprecedented human impacts on Earths environmental systems, and illustrates how Geographers envision the concept of the Anthropocene.
This edited volume illustrates that geographers have a diverse perspective on what the Anthropocene is and represents. The chapters also show that geographers do not feel it necessary to identify only one starting point for the temporal onset of the Anthropocene. Several starting points are suggested, and some authors support the concept of a time-transgressive Anthropocene. Chapters in this book are organized into six sections, but many of them transcend easy categorization and could have fit into two or even three different sections. Geographers embrace the concept of the Anthropocene while defining it and studying it in a variety of ways that clearly show the breadth and diversity of the discipline.
This book will be of great value to scholars, researchers, and students interested in geography, environmental humanities, environmental studies, and anthropology.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
This book is devoted to the Anthropocene, the period of unprecedented human impacts on Earths environmental systems and illustrates how Geographers envision the concept of the Anthropocene.
Introduction: The Anthropocene Part 1: Definitions and Conceptual
Considerations
1. The Anthropocene: The One, the Many, and the Topological
2.
The Geoethical Semiosis of the Anthropocene: The Peircean Triad for a
Reconceptualization of the Relationship between Human Beings and Environment
3. Placing the Anthropos in Anthropocene
4. The Inhumanities
5. Language and
Groundwater: Symbolic Gradients of the Anthropocene
6. Agri-Food Systems and
the Anthropocene
7. On Decolonizing the Anthropocene: Disobedience via Plural
Constitutions Part 2: Historical Perspectives on the Anthropocene
8. Nothing
New under the Sun? George Perkins Marsh and Roots of U.S. Physical Geography
9. Synchronizing Earthly Timescales: Ice, Pollen, and the Making of
Proto-Anthropocene Knowledge in the North Atlantic Region
10. Geographic
Thought and the Anthropocene: What Geographers Have Said and Have to Say Part
3: Physical Geography and the Anthropocene
11. Floodplain and Terrace Legacy
Sediment as a Widespread Record of Anthropogenic Geomorphic Change
12. Hotter
Drought as a Disturbance at Upper Treeline in the Southern Rocky Mountains
13. Onset of the Paleoanthropocene in the Lower Great Lakes Region of North
America: An Archaeological and Paleoecological Synthesis
14. Identifying a
Pre-Columbian Anthropocene in California
15. Wetland Farming and the Early
Anthropocene: Globally Upscaling from the Maya Lowlands with LiDAR and
Multiproxy Verification
16. Putting the Anthropocene into Practice:
Methodological Implications Part 4: Natural Hazards, Disasters, and the
Anthropocene
17. The Changing Nature of Hazard and Disaster Risk in the
Anthropocene
18. Seismic Shifts: Recentering Geology and Politics in the
Anthropocene
19. Understanding Urban Flood Resilience in the Anthropocene: A
SocialEcologicalTechnological Systems (SETS) Learning Framework Part 5: The
Environment and Environmental Degradation
20. Reframing Pre-European Amazonia
through an Anthropocene Lens
21. Forests in the Anthropocene
22. Abandoning
Holocene Dreams: Proactive Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing World
23.
Re-envisioning the Toxic Sublime: National Park Wilderness Landscapes at the
Anthropocene
24. Climate Necropolitics: Ecological Civilization and the
Distributive Geographies of Extractive Violence in the Anthropocene
25.
Cultures and Concepts of Ice: Listening for Other Narratives in the
Anthropocene
26. Ruins of the Anthropocene: The Aesthetics of Arctic Climate
Change
27. The New (Ab)Normal: Outliers, Everyday Exceptionality, and the
Politics of Data Management in the Anthropocene Part 6: The Anthropocene and
Geographic Education
28. What Does That Have to Do with Geology? The
Anthropocene in School Geographies around the World
29. Geographic Education
in the Anthropocene: Cultivating Citizens at the Neoliberal University
David R. Butler is Texas State University System Regents Professor Emeritus, and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography, Texas State University. His research interests include geomorphology in the Anthropocene, zoogeomorphology, dendrogeomorphology, and mountain environments and environmental change, especially in the Rocky Mountains.
