Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature
- ISBN 13:
- 9781503637320
- author:
- Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Combined Academic Publ.
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 344
- Dimensions:
- 23.1 x 15 x 3.1 centimetres (0.6
- Genre:
- Nonfiction
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature explores our current planetary crisis and offers a new way of understanding the world. This field guide takes readers through a series of sites, thought experiments, and genre-stretching descriptive practices to nurture a revitalized natural history.
The effects of human activity are global in scope, but take shape within distinct social and ecological "patches," discontinuous regions where key actors may not be human, but the plants, animals, fungi, viruses, plastics, and chemicals creating our new world. By studying these patchy dynamics, we can better appreciate more-than-human worlds and develop a deeper understanding of the ecological challenges we face.
Through its unique blend of field-based observations and place-based knowledge cultivation, Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene invites readers to see the world anew and explore new ways of living through the epoch that human activity has ushered in.
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