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Periodizing the Capitalocene as Polemocene

Journal of World-Systems Research, 2021
Lewis and Maslin explore geological markers for the beginning of the “Anthropocene”-beginning, in their periodization, in either 1492 (naming the birth of capitalism as the cause of planetary crisis) or 1945 (naming elite-driven militarization as its ...
John Peter Antonacci
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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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“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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Epochality, Global Capitalism and Ecology

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2018
What type of capitalism do we live in today? My answer to this question draws upon two interrelated lines of argument. Firstly, I will argue that we inhabit an epoch of global capitalism.
Wayne Hope
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Necropolicy in the Capitalocene: Australia's political ecology of death

Journal of Political Ecology
This 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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Towards a Politicization and Historicization of “Climate Migration”: A Political Ecology Perspective on Global Mobility under Capitalism

Migraciones
The climate change discourse that emerged in the 1990s has foregrounded climate-induced migration; yet, terms such as environmental refugee or climate migrant, frequently invoked in public debate, remain undefined within international refugee law ...
Arianna Poletti, Gennaro Avallone
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‘The Problem of This Trash Society’: Anthropogenic Waste and the Neoliberal City in Super-Cannes, Millennium People and Kingdom Come

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 World Ecology of Desalination

Journal of World-Systems Research, 2020
World-systems scholars are increasingly engaged in issues at the intersection of ecological and economic concerns since the proliferation of debates on the Anthropocene.
Brian F O'Neill
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Ahuehuete, Water Elder

Plant Perspectives
Santa María del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico faced a unique dilemma in 2022. An unprecedented drought forced the community to choose between providing water to its residents or to the Tule Tree, which makes Tule a touristic destination by virtue of being the ...
Max D. López Toledano
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Magical Realist Hauntings in Children's Everyday Encounters With Death, or, How to Believe in Impossible Things

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng, Rebecca E. Olson, Sally Staton   +2 more
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