Critical development studies in the Anthropocene

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5695547
AutoresAndrew Mcgregor (0000-0001-6476-346X, Macquarie University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen55
Número3
Páginas350-354
Fecha de publicación2017-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeographical Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1745-5863 • E-ISSN: 1745-5871
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1745-5871.12206
OpenAlexW2568512355
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas23

In this short commentary, the ramifications of the Anthropocene for a broadly defined critical development studies are considered. The likely anthropogenic roots of increasing cyclonic intensity and associated impacts in the Pacific are drawn upon to propose four research agendas. The first focuses on how places are becoming connected through human-induced changes to planetary systems. While direct causal relationships are difficult to draw, research efforts can highlight the disproportionate contributions particular development models, actors, and lifestyles are having on more distant socioecological systems. A second more conventional theme focuses on the uneven impacts of the Anthropocene on people and places, as well as on how development is practised and prioritised. A third theme explores how the Anthropocene can be used to retheorise development in creative and more-than-human ways, recognising non-human agencies and the co-production of development processes. A final agenda involves asking how critical development researchers can strategically use and repurpose the Anthropocene to pursue socially and environmentally progressive ends

Anthropocene · Environmental ethics · Environmental planning · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism