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Social Human Complexity and Global Challenges: Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Contributions for Transformative Change

Complexity, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
This paper advances a framework for complexity‐informed action research as a mode of governance for addressing the contemporary polycrisis in socio‐ecological systems. It argues that knowledge is not merely representational but possesses causal power in shaping future system trajectories and that research and governance are inseparable, recursive ...
David S. Byrne, Emma Uprichard, Gill Callaghan, Rika Preiser   +3 more
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Cheap Water, Catastrophic Costs

Journal of World-Systems Research
This paper examines the 2022 Oder River ecological disaster through a world-ecology lens, arguing it is a localized manifestation of global "Cheap Water" dynamics.
Piotr Walewicz
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Cybernetics in the Anthropocene’s Wake: Reframing Global Transformations Through the Emergent Human–Earth System

Complexity, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
The Anthropocene has been a powerful conceptual lens for exploring the coupling of humans and the Earth system. While fostering a rich transdisciplinary discourse, its grounding in bounded geological time and emphasis on disruption has often reinforced the nature–culture divide and tended toward a dystopian outlook.
Matthew Walls, Petr Pokorný, Rika Preiser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping Critical Anthropocene Discourses in Musical Artefacts: Whiteness, Absence, and the Intersecting “-Cenes” in Prurient’s The History of Aids

Open Cultural Studies, 2019
In critiquing the humanism of the Anthropocene, scholars have proposed multiple “-cenes” of their own (i.e. the Capitalocene, Plantationocene, and Necrocene).
Woods Peter J.
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TOWARDS A DEGROWTH CRITIQUE OF AEROMOBILITIES: An Urban Political Ecology Perspective on the Airport Expansion Resistance in Barcelona

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 49, Issue 6, Page 1399-1416, November 2025.
Abstract Aeromobilities—socio‐technical systems that lock in dependence on fossil fuel‐based mobilities—contribute substantially to climate change and uneven geographies. They represent paradigmatic capitalism‐driven forms of metabolism, permeated by logics of efficiency and growth. While existing literature has examined resistance to airport expansion,
Ersilia Verlinghieri, Rubén Martínez Moreno, Mauro Castro, Alejandra López Martín   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

¿Por qué se debe considerar al marxismo ecológico en la era del capitaloceno?/ Why should ecological Marxism be considered in the era of the capitalocene?

Letras Verdes: Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioambientales, 2018
Este artículo pretende adentrarse en el debate marxismo/ecología, para subrayar la importancia de renovar las categorías marxistas del materialismo histórico y dialéctico para el análisis profundo de la era del capitaloceno.
Alejandro Escalera-Briceño, Manuel Ángeles-Villa, Alejandro Palafox-Muñoz   +2 more
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Be(e)coming pollinators: Beekeeping and perceptions of environmentalism in Massachusetts. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2022
DiDonato S, Gareau BJ.
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Reality Winners

Critical Quarterly, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 153-195, December 2025.
Lee Grieveson
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Extraction, Exploitation, and Religious Surplus in the Capitalocene

Religions
Efforts to address the logic of extraction, which arguably is at the core of our current environmental catastrophe, are examples for a non-reductive material turn in the study of religion and theology. These efforts are linked with the logics of property,
Joerg Rieger
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Climate Change and Its Lexicon: An Analytical and Critical View. [PDF]

Int J Polit Cult Soc, 2021
Domingues JM.
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