Environmental Justice and the Anthropocene Meme
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20003534 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giovanna Di Chiro (0000-0003-3885-4004, Swarthmore College, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, John M Meyer (0000-0003-3565-7435), David Schlosberg (0000-0003-3547-919X) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199685271.013.18 |
| OpenAlex | W2475302226 |
| ISBN | 9780199685271 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
This essay examines the adoption of and the indifference to the term “Anthropocene” in diverse discourses addressing the urgency of climate change in the early twenty-first century. Through an analysis of keynote speeches, this essay argues that Anthropocene—a storytelling device invoking a pan-human species responsibility for the current climate crisis—is deployed widely within Euro-Australo-American academic environmental studies and environmental politics, but has not gained political or epistemic traction in environmental justice and climate justice organizations and social movements. Challenging the underlying universalism, anti-humanism, and cynicism woven into Anthropocene discourse, activists from environmental justice, climate justice, and indigenous organizations do not invoke Anthropocene’s rhetoric of humans as destroyers or masters of nature. Rather, these groups provide examples of “people powered” regenerative politics based on life-enhancing political strategies and proactive organizing in support of a just transition toward renewable energy, local economies, and socially and ecologically sustainable communities
Anthropocene · Climate change · Climate justice · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Ecology · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Politics in the Anthropocene
Feminist Imaginations in a Heated Climate
Teaching the Environmental Humanities
Politikwissenschaftliches Interpretieren des Anthropozäns – Zur Bedeutung interpretativer Politikforschung im Umgang mit Objektivität, Normativität und Performativität von Meta-Konzepten
Organizing in the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene exit
Conclusion
Democratic Anthropocene
Governance in the Holocene
Sustainability
Governance in the Anthropocene
Abbreviations
Copyright Page
Who will form the Anthropocene?
Anthropocene
Planetary justice
People and urban nature
The Politics of the Anthropocene
Environmental Racism and Climate (In)Justice in the Anthropocene
Antropoceno
The Anthropocene Concept in the Natural and Social Sciences, the Humanities and Law – A Bibliometric Analysis and a Qualitative Interpretation (2000–2020)
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |