Handbook of the Anthropocene: Humans between Heritage and Future

ISBN-13: 9783031259098 / Angielski

Nathanaël Wallenhorst; Christoph Wulf

Opis

This Handbook is a collection of contributions of more than 300 researchers who have worked to grasp the Anthropocene, this new geological epoch characterised by a modification of the conditions of habitability of the Earth for all living things, in its biogeophysical and socio-political reality. These researchers also sought to define a historical and prospective anthropology that integrates social, economic, cultural and political issues as well as, of course, environmental ones. What are the anthropological changes needed to ensure that our human adventure will be able to continue in the Anthropocene? And what are the educational and political issues involved?Anthropocene is fast becoming a widely-used term, but thus far, there been no reference work explaining the thoughts of the greatest experts of the present day on this subject (at the intersection of biogeophysical and socio-political knowledge). A scientific and political concept (but which is also the conceptual vehicle for conveying the scientific community's sense of concern), this complex term is explained by international experts as they reflect on scientific arguments taking place in earth system science, the social sciences and the humanities. What these researchers from different disciplines have in common is a healthy concern for the future and how to prepare for it in the Anthropocene and also the identification of possible anthropological changes. This Handbook encourages readers to immerse themselves in reflections on the human adventure through descriptions of our differing heritages and the future that is in the process of being written.

Spis treści

Introduction (Nathanaël Wallenhorst, French political and environmental scientist and Christoph Wulf, German anthropologist)

 

Activist (Andreas Malm, Swedish political scientist)

Acceleration (Hartmut Rosa, German sociologist)

Aesthetics (Mariagrazia Portera, Italian philosopher)

Animals (Andreas Weber, German biologist)

Anthropocene (Alexander Federau, French philosopher)

Hominisation (Jean-Louis Genard, Belgian sociologist)

Anthropology (Christoph Wulf, German anthropologist)

Apocalypse (John Collins, US philosopher)

Asceticism (Léhonard Loew, German Historian)

Bioeconomics (Sylvie Ferrari, French economist)

Body (Christoph Wulf, German anthropologist)

Borders (Benjamin Boudou, French political scientist)

Capitalism (Naomi Klein, Canadian economist-journalist)

Capitalocene (Alexander Federau, Swiss philosopher)

Care (Renaud Hétier, French researcher in educational sciences)

Childhood (Renaud Hétier, French researcher in educational sciences)

Chthulucene (Donna Haraway, US philosopher)

Cities in Transition (Rob Hopkins, British activist)

Dating (Mark Williams, British paleontologist)

Ethics (Michel Bourban, French political scientist)

Colonialism (Malcom Ferdinand, French political scientist)

Community

Complexity

Consumption

Convivialism (Nathanaël Wallenhorst, French political and environmental scientist)

Cooperation (Enzo Pezzini, Italian political scientist)

Cosmos

Courage (Cynthia Fleury, French philosopher)

Culture (John Borneman, US anthropologist)

Digitalization (Benjamin Jörrissen, German, UNECO Chair Erlangen)

Disasters (Yoann Moreau, Franco-Japanese philosopher)

Earth stewardship (Riccardo Rozzi, Chilean philosopher)

Ecology (Isabelle Hajek, French sociologist, Jean-Pierre Lévy, French geographer)

Education (Renaud Hétier, French researcher in educational sciences)

Ecocide (Valérie Cabanes, French environmental lawyer)

Economy

Elements: Air, Land, Water. Fire

Emergency (Agnès Sinaï, French political scientist)

Energy (Jean-Marc Jancovici, French engineer)

Enlivenment (Nathanaël Wallenhorst, French political and environmental scientist)

Gender (Judith Butler, US philosopher)

Genetics

 

 

Globalization (Manfred Steger, Australian American Professor of Global Studies)

Great acceleration (Will Steffen, US chemist

Ground

Habits (Mariagrazia Portera, Italian philosopher)

Health (Annette Stross, German Professor , Karsruhe)

Heat (Steven Sherwood, Australian meteorologist and Matthew Huber, American geographer)

Heritage of Nature and Culture

Homo deus (Yuval Noah, Israeli historian)

Homo oeconomicus, homo collectivus, homo religatus (Nathanaël Wallenhorst, French political and environmental scientist)

Hospitality (Benjamin Boudou, French political scientist)

Human condition (Nathanaël Wallenhorst, French political and environmental scientist)

Humour (Florent Troquenet-Lopez, French philosopher)

Hunger

Imagination (Christoph Wulf, German anthropologist)

Institution (Jean-Yves Robin French psychosociologist and Catherine Nafti-Malherbe, French sociologist)

Socialisation (Tanguy-Marie Pouliquen, French philosopher)

Interdisciplinarity/transdisciplinarity

Kairos (Emmanuel Nal, French philosopher)

Law

Life: History, Styles (Catherine Fino, French philosopher, and Alex Williams ,British philosopher)

Limitations (Jean-Yves Robin French psychosociologist and Catherine Nafti-Malherbe, French sociologist)

Machine/Robot

Mass Extinction (Anthony Barnosky, American Biologist)

Materialism (Edouard Kleinpeter, French computer scientist)

Migration (François Gemenne, French politician)

Mimesis (Christoph Wulf, German anthropologist)

Mobility (Philippe Hamman, French sociologist)

Movement

Nature

Network (Bruno Latour, French philosopher)

Nutrition

Otherness (Muriel Briançon, French researcher in educational sciences)

Peace (Johan Galtung, Norwegian political scientist)

Planetary boundaries (Johan Rockström, Swedish environmentalist)

Plants (Andreas Weber, German biologist)

Plasticity (François Prouteau, French researcher in educational sciences)

Pollution (François Ramade, French ecologist)

Posthumanism

Poverty

Technology – NBIC (Edouard Kleinpeter, French computer scientist)

Relation (Sébastien Claeys, French ethicist)

Resonance (Nathanaël Wallenhorst, French political and environmental scientist)

Resources (John Asafu-Adjaye, Australian economist)

Responsibility (Jean-Louis Genard, Belgian sociologist)

Rituals (Christoph Wulf, German anthropologist)

 

 

Sea (Colin Summerhayes, British oceanographer)

Solastalgia (Glenn Allbrecht, Australian philosopher)

Solidarity

Space

Stratigraphy (Jan Zalasiewicz, British geologist)

Sustainable development (Daniel Curnier, Swiss environmental scientist)

System (Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, German physicist)

Transactions (social and democratic) (Philippe Hamman, French sociologist)

Utopia

Violence

Vulnerability (Joerg Zirfas. German researcher in educational sciences)

Wave (Eun-Soon Im, Hong Kong environmentalist, Jeremy Pal, American environmentalist and Elfatih Eltahir, American climatologist)

War (Dieter Senghaas, German social scientist and peace researcher)

Waste (Isabelle Hajek, French sociologist)

Water

Wood

O autorze

Nathanaël Wallenhorst is Professor at the Catholic University of the West (UCO). He is Doctor of Educational Sciences and Doctor of Philosophy (first international co-supervision PhD), and Doctor of Environmental Sciences and Doctor in Political Science (second international co-supervision PhD). He is the author of twenty books on politics, education, and anthropology in the Anthropocene. Together with Christoph Wulf, he is editor of the "Anthropocene - Humanities and Social Sciences" series at Springer-Nature. His passion: trying to listen to the future.

Christoph Wulf is Professor of Anthropology and Education and a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology, the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB, 1999-2012) “Cultures of Performance,” the Cluster of Excellence (2007-2012) “Languages of Emotion,” and the Graduate School “InterArts” (2006-2015) at the Freie Universität Berlin. His books have been translated into 20 languages. For his research in anthropology and anthropology of education, he received the title “professor honoris causa” from the University of Bucharest. He is Vice-President of the German Commission for UNESCO.

Blurb

This Handbook is a collection of contributions by more than 300 researchers who have attempted to grasp the essence of the Anthropocene, the new geological epoch that is characterised by an alteration in the conditions of habitability of the Earth, in its bio geophysical and socio-political reality, for all living things. These researchers have also sought to define a historical and prospective anthropology that integrates social, economic, cultural and political issues as well, of course, as environmental ones. What are the anthropological changes needed to ensure that our human adventure will be able to continue in the Anthropocene? And what are the educational and political issues involved?

The Anthropocene is fast becoming a widely-used term, but thus far there has been no reference work explaining the thoughts of the greatest experts of the present day on this subject (at the intersection of bio-geophysical and socio-political knowledge). A scientific and political concept (but also the conceptual vehicle for conveying the scientific community's sense of concern), this complex term is explained by international experts as they reflect on scientific arguments taking place in earth system science, the social sciences and the humanities. What these researchers from different disciplines have in common is a healthy concern for the future and how to prepare for it in the Anthropocene and also the identification of possible anthropological changes. This Handbook encourages readers to immerse themselves in reflections on the human adventure through descriptions of our differing heritages and the future that is in the process of being written.

 

Nathanaël Wallenhorst is Professor at the Catholic University of the West (UCO). He is Doctor of Educational Sciences and Doctor of Philosophy (first international co-supervision PhD), and Doctor of Environmental Sciences and Doctor in Political Science (second international co-supervisionPhD). He is the author of twenty books on politics, education, and anthropology in the Anthropocene. Together with Christoph Wulf, he is editor of the "Anthropocene - Humanities and Social Sciences" series at Springer-Nature. His passion: trying to listen to the future.

Christoph Wulf is Professor of Anthropology and Education and a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology, the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB, 1999-2012) “Cultures of Performance,” the Cluster of Excellence (2007-2012) “Languages of Emotion,” and the Graduate School “InterArts” (2006-2015) at the Freie Universität Berlin. His books have been translated into 20 languages. For his research in anthropology and anthropology of education, he received the title “professor honoris causa” from the University of Bucharest. He is Vice-President of the German Commission for UNESCO.