The Politics of the Anthropocene
Temporality, Ecology, and Indigeneity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2236600 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisa Randazzo (0000-0002-5849-2787, University of Hertfordshire, corresponding author), Hannah Richter (0000-0001-5680-6888, University of Hertfordshire) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 293-312 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Political Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687 |
| DOI | 10.1093/ips/olab006 |
| OpenAlex | W3136043819 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 46 |
The notion of the Anthropocene has become an instrumental backdrop against which post-foundational social theory and political research frame political action in a way that defies modern certainty and, somewhat paradoxically, anthropocentrism, under conditions of drastic ecological changes. But what exactly is the theoretical promise of the Anthropocene? This paper seeks to explore what the concept can offer to critical social science and, conversely, how these critical approaches define and locate the analytical and the political purchase of the Anthropocene, through the critical lens of Indigenous scholarship. The paper genealogically retraces the transition from a science-led, discontinuous-descriptive to a continuous-ontological conceptualization of the Anthropocene. It then unpacks how the notions of ecological relationality and non-human agency deployed in the latter closely parallel certain lines of argumentation in Indigenous thought and politics. Drawing on critical Indigenous studies, the paper formulates a critique of how relational perspectives enfold alternative ontologies and politics within an overarching Anthropocene ontology that is not only problematically universalizing, but also replaces the genuine engagement with differences and resistance
Agency (philosophy · Anthropocene · Anthropocentrism · Biology · Conceptualization · Critical theory · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Temporality · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Ecology · Law · Philosophy
Humanitarianism at the End of (This) World
Ecology at the margins
Creating Synergies between International Law and Rights of Nature
“Interconnectedness and interdependence”
Agency Is Ecological
Recuperating Logistics in the Critique of the Relational Turn in IR
Differentiating natures, connecting environments pragmatic sociology and the emergence of green justifications
Avengers’ anti-Oedipal endgame
Political theories of climate temporality
Time back! Reclaiming Indigenous temporalities
The Anthropocene rupture in international relations
It’s the River’s call
The Black Horizon
For Those Who Will Follow; Earth Marred and Renewing Relationships
Political action in planetary times
Do we have time for democracy? Climate action and the problem of time in the Anthropocene
Whiteness as Epistemological Orientation in International Climate Change Discourses
Animacy and the Agency of Spiritual Beings in Pluriversal Societies
The Paradox of Anthropocene Inaction
The Birth of the Anthropocene
The New World of the Anthropocene
Capitalism in the web of life
Anthropocene Feminism
Indigenous Climate Change Studies
The Practice of Kuleana
Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene
The Transit of Empire
Allegories of the Anthropocene
Weaving Indigenous science, protocols and sustainability science
Genealogies of resilience
Decolonising Social Work Research
The Anthropocene
Reorientations; or, An Indigenous Feminist Reflection on the Anthropocene
Extinction
We Have Never Been Modern
Democracy, critique and the ontological turn
Re/placing Native Science
After the Anthropocene
The Ends of the World
Indigenous science (fiction) for the Anthropocene
In Search of Theory and Method in American Indian Studies
Dismantling the Divide Between Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge
Resilience Stories
Trans-Indigenous
Critical Indigenous Studies
Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene
Recommendation Systems as Technologies of the Self
An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz
Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene
Waste, Environmental Politics and Dis/Engaged Publics
The Climate of History
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |