Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene

Imagining Human Responsibility in an Age of Scalar Complexity

Gabriele Dürbeck, Philip Hüpkes, Gabriele Dürbeck, Philip Hüpkes

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781000432503
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Letteratura
• Subtopic: Critica letteraria e natura

The Anthropocene concept draws attention to the various forms of entanglement of social, political, ecological, biological and geological processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The ensuing complexity and ambiguity create manifold challenges to widely established theories, methodologies, epistemologies and ontologies. The contributions to this volume engage with conceptual issues of scale in the Anthropocene with a focus on mediated representation and narrative. They are centered around the themes of scale and time, scale and the nonhuman and scale and space. The volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human responsibility that meet the challenges created by humanity entering an age of scalar complexity.

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Index

1. **Page numbers in italics reference figures.
2. accountability 171
3. Ackerman, John 154
4. action, human activity 117, 119, 136
5. activism, art and 214
6. activity of thinking 134–136
7. Adleman, Daniel 24
8. Adorno, Theodor W. 111, 122–123, 153
9. aesthetics 14, 32, 42, 143–144, 153, 215; Anthropocene aesthetics 147–148, 151, 153
10. affect theory 144
11. African-American experience 187
12. Afrofuturism 187
13. Agamben, Giorgio 116, 118
14. air-conditioners, Delhi, India 228
15. Akomolafe, Bayo 167
16. Aldiss, Brian 99
17. alienation 117
18. Alley, Richard B. 65
19. allometry 162
20. alterity 113–116
21. aluminum 219
22. Amazon 214
23. ambiguity 215
24. Amery, Carl 50–51
25. anisochrony 26–28, 32, 34, 186, 191n7
26. Anthropocene 2–3, 6–7, 10, 177, 181, 190, 212, 225; disorder 127; hypothesis 75, 77–80, 225
27. Anthropocene fiction 44
28. Anthropocene narrative 11, 77–78, 90, 165, 173, 200
29. Anthropocene Working Group 78, 82
30. anthropomorphism 13, 112, 115, 119–122
31. Anthropos 2, 3, 6–7, 12, 127, 191
32. anthroposphere 11, 67
33. apocalyptic time 35
34. Archer, David 7, 226–228
35. Arendt, Hannah 117–11...