Ethics and Politics of Space for the Anthropocene

Description

Featuring an international, multidisciplinary set of contributors, this thought-provoking book reimagines established narratives of the Anthropocene to allow differences in regions and contexts to be taken seriously, emphasising the importance of localised and situated knowledge. Envisaging a narrative of change that renders visible the complex transformations taking place across the globe, this book outlines new and radical ways to address the current environmental crisis in a more sustainable and context-specific manner. It presents empirical studies from various contexts, highlighting the potentiality of non-Western knowledge, concepts and categories as well as recognising the entanglement of humans with other beings and ecosystems. In particular, it offers critical engagement with the debates around the Anthropocene by challenging the dominant techno-rational agenda that often prevails in socio-political and academic discussions. This book will be crucial reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in fields from human geography and tourism studies to law, public policy and administration, philosophy, politics and organisation studies who are dealing with intersecting issues of environment, sustainability, indigenous rights, space and ethics. It will also be helpful for policymakers and research consultants in leveraging localised solutions to the current ecological crisis. Front Matter Copyright Contents Contributors 1. Introduction: reimagining ways of talking about the Anthropocene PART I Reimaginations 2. Imagining place and politics in the Anthropocene 3. Walking with rocks - with care 4. On scientific fabulation: storytelling in the more-than-human world PART II Stories from marginalized communities 5. Rethinking knowledge, power, agency: learning from displaced and slum communities in Bangladesh 6. Spaces of climate justice: towards an ethical politics of intervention in the Anthropocene 7. Between extractivism and sacredness: the struggle for environmental in heritances by the Adivasi communities of India PART III Law and technology 8. Beyond the Capitalocene: an ecocentric perspective for the energy transition 9. Temporality, technology and justice in Hannah Arendt: a critical approach 10. The Anthropocene and climate change in the post-Paris Agreement debate PART IV Conclusive part 11. The role of imagination, marginalized communities, law and technology in building an ethical approach to the Anthropocene Index