This wide ranging volume addresses the changing landscape of problems, challenges, and possibilities that emerge once the macroscopic notion of the Anthropocene is replaced with Southern Anthropocenes.
This wide-ranging volume addresses the changing landscape of problems, challenges, and possibilities that emerge once the macroscopic notion of the Anthropocene is replaced with Southern Anthropocenes. It envisions Southern Anthropocenes as an opening towards forms and ends of life that exceed—while remaining in partial relation with—modern socio-economic horizons and the determinations of the geo-, eco-, and climate sciences.
What happens if Southern Anthropocenes are allowed to multiply, and room is made for practices of worlding and life that are impossible from within the singular Anthropocene?
Key issues include emergent interfaces between beings, ways of living, and worlds; problems of co-existence in and across pluriversal contact zones; explorations of liveability under rapidly changing circumstances; speculations about other futures and how to invent them; investigations of more-than-human itineraries and entangled territories; and explorations of how to collectively invent the portals between ways of thinking and acting on a planet in a critical state. It will be essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in Sociology, Anthropology, Critical Education, Environmental Humanities, Science and Technology Studies, Geography, and Urban Studies.
Introduction: Southern Anthropocenes
Part
1. Emergent Interfaces
Introduction: Emergent Interfaces
1. Welcome to the End of the World: Thinking beyond the Separation of Human
and Geological Temporalities
2. Tropical Cargoscapes: Sojourning Putridities in the Afterlives of Medical
Necrowaste in Colombo
3. Diving into the Underwater Anthropocene: Vital Materiality and the
Becoming of a Shipwreck
4. Gardens at the Edge of the Sky: Toward an Entropological Pact
Part
2. Problems of Co-existence
Introduction: Problems of Co-existence
5. Wounded Lands, Resentful Mountains, and Mourning Maize: The Ecological
Violence of War and Peace in Latin America
6. Anthropocene Relations and the Human activity in Zimbabwes Forest
Reserves
7. Difference and Disobedience: Inhabiting the Southern Anthropocene
8. The Plasticene and the Global South
Part
3. Livable Worlds
Introduction: Liveable Worlds
9. To Forego: An Ethics for the Urban Anthropocene
10. Kinship in the Technosphere: From Ishimure Michikos Paradise in the Sea
of Sorrow to Miyazaki Hayaos Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
11. For a World where Mutual Worlds Fit: Political Ontology in the
Anthropocene
Part
4. Speculations
Introduction: Speculations (or, how to inhabit the pluriverse?)
12. Decolonial Portals as Pedagogical Practice
13. Anthropocenes Off-Earth
14. How to Construct a Time Machine: The Anthropocene in an Indigo Vat
15. Speculation as Method: World-Building and Collective (Un-)Learning for
the Anthropocene
Part
5. More-than-Human Itineraries
Introduction: More-than-Human Itineraries
16. Street Feeding Stray Cats: A Multi-Species Cosmopolitics in Urban
Indonesia
17. Migratory Birds, Migratory Lives: A Brackish Contact Zone in Bang Pu,
Thailand
18. Artisans of the Plasticene: Polytanks and Plasticities in Urban Ghana
19. Reclaiming Country: Australian Aboriginal Walking Trails as Method
Part
6. Entangled Territories
Introduction: Entangled Territories
20. Under the Plastic Tarp: Memory and a Southern Anthropocene in
Californias Pajaro Valley
21. Arctic Worlds in Southern Anthropocenes
22. How to Survive Medicine in the Anthropocene?
23. After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
Postscript. What Tales will We Leave the Children of Tomorrow? Story-Trading
across Southern Anthropocenes
Casper Bruun Jensen is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He is the author of Ontologies for Developing Things (2010) and Monitoring Movements in Development Aid with Brit Ross Winthereik (2013) and the editor of Deleuzian Intersections: Science, Technology, Anthropology with Kjetil Rödje (2009) and Infrastructures and Social Complexity with Penny Harvey and Atsuro Morita (2016). His work focuses on climate, environments, infrastructures, and speculative and practical ontologies.
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