Routledge Research in the Anthropocene
Education in a Time of Social and Environmental Unravelling: Transdisciplinary Responses to the Polycrisis
1st Edition
By Cary Campbell
April 28, 2026
This book argues that the root of education’s failure to address the complex problems of human-induced climate change lies in the stories we tell. At once too complex, too simplistic, and overly focused on communicating and accumulating scientific facts, the stories we tell about climate change ...
Colonization of the Inner Planet: 21st Century Social Theory from the Politics of Sensibilities
1st Edition
By Adrian Scribano
May 31, 2023
This book explores the conquest, predation and management of human bodies and emotions by the growing capitalist digital community. It seeks to understand the debate between various forms of the individual, subject, actor, and agent to emerge a social theory vision for the 21st century. The book ...
Developing Earthly Attachments in the Anthropocene
1st Edition
By Edward H. Huijbens
May 31, 2023
This book explores the development and significance of an Earth-oriented progressive approach to fostering global wellbeing and inclusive societies in an era of climate change and uncertainty. Developing Earthly Attachments in the Anthropocene examines the ways in which the Earth has become a ...
Climate Change Ethics and the Non-Human World
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian G. Henning, Zack Walsh
December 13, 2021
This book examines from different perspectives the moral significance of non-human members of the biotic community and their omission from climate ethics literature. The complexity of life in an age of rapid climate change demands the development of moral frameworks that recognize and respect the ...
Involving Anthroponomy in the Anthropocene: On Decoloniality
1st Edition
By Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
December 13, 2021
This book introduces the idea of anthroponomy – the organization of humankind to support autonomous life – as a response to the problems of today’s purported "Anthropocene" age. It argues for a specific form of accountability for the redressing of planetary-scaled environmental problems. The ...
Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene
1st Edition
Edited
By Lynn Badia, Marija Cetinić, Jeff Diamanti
December 29, 2020
This book sets forth a new research agenda for climate theory and aesthetics for the age of the Anthropocene. It explores the challenge of representing and conceptualizing climate in the era of climate change. In the Anthropocene when geologic conditions and processes are primarily shaped by human...
Resilience in the Anthropocene: Governance and Politics at the End of the World
1st Edition
Edited
By David Chandler, Kevin Grove, Stephanie Wakefield
May 05, 2020
This book offers the first critical, multi-disciplinary study of how the concepts of resilience and the Anthropocene have combined to shape contemporary thought and governmental practice. Faced with the climate catastrophe of the Anthropocene, theorists and policymakers are increasingly turning to...
Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene: Re-conceptualising human–nature relations
1st Edition
By Lesley Head
February 06, 2018
The Anthropocene is a volatile and potentially catastrophic age demanding new ways of thinking about relations between humans and the nonhuman world. This book explores how responses to environmental challenges are hampered by a grief for a pristine and certain past, rather than considering the ...