Introduction

Thinking Politically through the New Era

Bibliographic Data

ID20076906
AuthorsMihnea Tănăsescu (0000-0001-5829-4644, corresponding author)
Year2022
Pages1-20
Publication date2022-04-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueEcocene Politics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOpen Book Publishers (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11647/obp.0274.01
OpenAlexW4223495030
ISBN9781800643147
LanguageEN
References cited94

This chapter introduces the concept of the Ecocene. Offered as an alternative to the Anthropocene, it argues that the new era is largely determined by the way in which ecological processes themselves have come to matter in politics. We live, in other words, in the age of ecology, not the human age. The concept of ecology is developed in terms of the ideas of chance, change, and locality. The chapter attends to the ways in which a conception of Ecocene politics can help an increasing number of social groups to live with tragedy and the increasing loss that will define countless futures

Anthropocene · Biology · Economics · Environmental ethics · Futures contract · Geography · Locality · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Ecology

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