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Precarity in the Capitalocene:
Crossings, 2023 This paper, mapping the trajectory of migrant workers’ lives in Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island, locates precarity in the nexus of capitalism and climate change and identifies the latter as a new determinant of precarity.
S.A.M. Raihanur Rahman
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Thoreau and the Capitalocene [PDF]
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2018 This essay will serve the double purpose of investigating the aesthetic dimensions of Thoreau’s environmental philosophy as depicted in his classic memoir Walden (1854) while examining the philosophical and political implications of its tendency to break
David Lombard
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Shamanic Thinking in the Capitalocene
Journal of World-Systems ResearchThe paper interweaves the concepts of two contemporary thinkers in order to describe the ongoing socio-environmental crisis. Based on the books Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason W.
Giacomo Otavio Tixiliski
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Disaster Making in the Capitalocene [PDF]
Global Environmental Politics, 2022 Abstract We live in a new normal of increasing, crosscutting, and shifting patterns of disasters fueled by large-scale environmental change, from floods to wildfires to pandemics. Our intervention in this forum piece makes the case that disasters, and responses to disasters, must be understood within the context of the global political ...
O’Lear, S. +3 more
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Planetary Health in Nursing: A Scoping Review. [PDF]
J Adv NursABSTRACT Aim To map the extent of the use of the term ‘planetary health’ in peer‐reviewed nursing literature. Design Scoping Review. Data Sources CINAHL, ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium, MEDLINE, APA PsycINFO, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and Web of Science were searched in January and February 2024 for English and French‐language ...
Vandenberg S +4 more
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Nature-society relations in disaster governance frameworks. [PDF]
DisastersAbstract This paper studies how the relations between nature and society are constructed in disaster governance frameworks. Dominant disaster governance frameworks present nature and society as separate realms, and the organisation of society is increasingly seen as the key cause of hazards and disasters.
Meriläinen E.
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2018 This essay examines the role of waste objects in J.G. Ballard’s critique of neoliberalism in Super-Cannes, Millennium People and Kingdom Come.1 It focuses on the ways in which waste matter resists the reader’s—and characters’—gaze, obstructs the flow of ...
Rachele Dini
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The Right to the Sustainable Smart City [PDF]
, 2019 Environmental concerns have driven an interest in sustainable smart cities, through the monitoring and optimisation of networked infrastructures. At the same time, there are concerns about who these interventions and services are for, and who benefits ...
Baggio Aline +10 more
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Exploring Posturbanism in Annalee Newitz’s The Terraformers [PDF]
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies SeriesAnnalee Newitz’s The Terraformers (2023) explores the endeavors of the Environmental Rescue Team (ERT), which consists of diverse humans, uplifted animals, engineered organisms, bots, drones, and AI, and how they strive to construct a sustainable planet,
Hatice Bay
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Utopianism in the Age of Capitalocene
Nordia Geographical Publications, 2021 This article explores the social and political imagination of ‘the Anthropocene’ and the utopian counter images that can be derived from it. From the utopian studies perspective, I argue that the Anthropocene cannot provide sufficient societal ...
Keijo Lakkala
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