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Media Ecologies and Transcendent Technology in Richard Powers’s 'The Overstory'
Often cited as a preeminent text of contemporary environmental fiction, Richard Powers’s The Overstory is a literary attempt to bridge the gap between the human and the nonhuman and reveal the entanglement of their shared ecological well-being. The novel
Thomas Storey
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The spread of non‐native species
ABSTRACT The global redistribution of species through human agency is one of the defining ecological signatures of the Anthropocene, with biological invasions reshaping biodiversity patterns, ecosystem processes and services, and species interactions globally.
Phillip J. Haubrock +16 more
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Storytelling in the Anthropocene
This article examines the 2015 book Love in the Anthropocene and storytelling in relation to ecological collapse. Climate fiction may engage elements of craft, in particular Enlightenment iterations of selfhood, that may contribute, regardless of a story&
Bonnie Nadzam
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The impacts of biological invasions
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock +42 more
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Indigenous Futurities: Theorizing Futurity in the Past and Present
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, a growing number of activists, scholars, writers, and visual artists have engaged with futurism as a framework for representing the lives of Indigenous peoples. Inspired by this hopeful reframing of the past‐present‐future, contributions to this special section of American Anthropologist address the question: How can ...
Lindsay Martel Montgomery +1 more
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Welcome to the Desert of the Anthropocene: Dystopian Cityscapes in (Post)Apocalyptic Science Fiction
Hatice Övgü Tüzün
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ABSTRACT This Agenda 2050 argues that we as business in society or other management scholars implicitly too often pretend that the tenets of conventional economics will provide a thriving future for us humans and for the rest of the beings we coexist with, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Sandra Waddock
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Short Abstract Recent years have seen a steady rise in narratives of pronatalism and demographic anxiety, while younger people are increasingly expressing reluctance to have children for reasons related to climate change. This commentary argues that geography and geographers have much to contribute to imagining, researching and building alternative ...
Matilda Fitzmaurice
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Silene, a versatile model system: from sex and genome evolution to ecology and speciation
Summary Fundamental and applied research in evolutionary biology benefits from the use of model systems in which approaches from disparate disciplines can be integrated. Here, we review recent progress in evolutionary research on the long‐standing model system Silene, a large genus with a well‐resolved phylogeny and newly available, expanded genomic ...
Sophie Karrenberg +16 more
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