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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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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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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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Centring Biodiversity in Nursing for Decolonial Planetary Health. [PDF]
Nurs InqABSTRACT Escalating biodiversity loss is tied to a global colonial‐capitalist order that treats human and other‐than‐human lives as resources for extraction. Sustained by logics of separation and hierarchies of value, this order creates grave risks for planetary health.
Jones AT, Vera M, LeClair J, Harsch D.
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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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Unruly edges: Toddler literacies of the Capitalocene [PDF]
Global Studies of Childhood, 2022 By troubling notions of time-as-progress and human exceptionality, this paper considers what shifts in conceptualisations of children’s literacies and futures might be possible in the context of faltering of capitalist logics of progress. The paper draws on a 3 year ethnographic study with families and young children in northern England, which asked ...
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“GREENING” THE CRITICAL THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WITH THE CONCEPT OF WORLD-ECOLOGY
Torun International Studies, 2019 The article signals the need for a deepened theoretical analysis of environmental issues in International Relations studies. It initializes the idea of “Greening” the Critical Theory of International Relations with critical concepts from other sciences ...
Piotr Walewicz
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Necropolicy in the Capitalocene: Australia's political ecology of death
Journal of Political EcologyThis is the Capitalocene, an age characterised by death derived from capitalism's endless accumulation, growth, and resource exploitation. In the Capitalocene, policies dedicated to climate change mitigation are intertwined with a capitalist logic ...
Kajsa Lundberg
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