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Intro -- Preface: Amy, a Geoanthropologist in the Future Wonders -- About the Author and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Humans Make Earth History-New Earth and New Anthropology -- 1.1 The "Age of Man"-Welcome to the Anthropocene? -- 1.1.1 Deep Past and Deep Futures -- 1.1.2 Earth System Science -- 1.1.3 Anthropologization of Geology -- 1.2 In a Nutshell-Questions and Argumentation of the Book -- 1.2.1 Anthropocene as a Phenomenon and an Idea -- 1.2.2 Focus: Anthropology and Geology in the Multidisciplinary Field -- 1.2.3 Line of Reasoning and Text Form -- 1.3 Planetary Space and Deep Time-A Geo-Sociocultural Mega-Macroepoch -- 1.3.1 Earth's History Leaves the Slow Motion Mode -- 1.3.2 Anthropocene Is Much more Comprehensive than Climate Change -- 1.3.3 We Are Consuming the Earth -- 1.3.4 Anthromes Instead of Biomes -- 1.3.5 The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) -- 1.4 Deep Time, Periodization Concepts and Contested Geo-Chronology -- 1.4.1 A Natural Reactor in Gabon-A Window to the Entanglement of Time and Space -- 1.4.2 Geology as Natural History and the Geological Grounding of Culture -- 1.4.3 Strong Histories, Histories, and Counter-Histories-Lévi-Strauss Revisited -- 1.4.4 Misunderstandings-What Will the Anthropocene Have Been? -- 1.4.5 The Principles of Stratigraphic Periodization and "Anthropocene Layers" -- 1.4.6 Formal Epoch and an Alternative-A Geological 'Event' -- Chapter 2: Cultural Resonance-Loss of Orientation, Fears, and Hope -- 2.1 Multiple Births-Epochal Breaks and Popular Culture -- 2.2 A Multiple Birth-Epochal Breaks and Popular Culture -- 2.2.1 The Meteoric Rise of a Term -- 2.2.2 Earth System Science-The Discovery of Rapid Earth Change -- 2.2.3 The Year 2000: Crutzen's Intervention and McNeill's Historical Diagnosis -- 2.2.4 A Geological Category Without Geologists?.
2.2.5 Planetary Boundaries vs. Boundaries Due to Resource Scarcity -- 2.2.6 Delayed Appearance of Geologists-The Stratigraphic Turn -- 2.2.7 Non-academic Inflation and Discourse Networks -- 2.2.8 Intensive Popularization in German-Speaking Countries -- 2.3 Anthropocene-Really a New Perspective? -- 2.3.1 Anthropocene-A Contribution to the Organisation of the Facts and the Idea -- 2.3.2 Precursors of the Concept-Not Old Wine in New Bottles -- 2.4 Turning Points and Breaks-When Did Humanity Become Geological? -- 2.4.1 Diverging Academic Interests in Periodization and Notorious Misunderstandings -- 2.4.2 "Great Acceleration" from the Middle of the Twentieth Century -- 2.4.3 Industrialization and Colonization -- 2.4.4 Early or "Deep" Anthropocene and the Importance of Historical Data -- 2.4.5 Mediating Proposals -- 2.4.6 Arguments for and Against a Chronostratigraphic Determination -- Chapter 3: End-Time Stories-Mostly Dramatic Framings -- 3.1 Alarm and Dystopia-Environmental Narratives with Mobilization Potential -- 3.1.1 Self-Descriptions of Society -- 3.1.2 "Humanity in Ruins"-Apocalypses and Exaggeration -- 3.2 Globe, Planet, and Gaia-World-Views Full of Resonance -- 3.2.1 Globe and Planetary Thinking-Mondialisation and Planétarisation -- 3.2.2 The Power of Images from Space-"Blue Planet" and "Spaceship Earth" -- 3.3 Earth Spheres and Critical Zone-The Human Skin of the Earth -- 3.3.1 Earth System, Instability and Depth of Intervention -- 3.3.2 Critical zone and Verticality -- 3.3.3 Technospere and Technocene -- 3.3.4 Archäosphere und Humanosphere -- 3.4 A New Reordering of the World-Powerful Narratives and Moral Visualisation -- 3.5 Images of Nature and Humanity-Between the Misanthropocene and the "Mature Anthropocene" -- 3.5.1 Alarmism and Strict Deadlines -- 3.5.2 Earth Management and the "Good Anthropocene".
Chapter 4: Critique-Strengths and Weaknesses of Anthropocene Thinking -- 4.1 Benefits of the Term-Great and "Real" Multidisciplinarity? -- 4.1.1 Path Dependency and Science -- 4.1.2 Necessary Multidisciplinarity vs. Interdisciplinarity -- 4.1.3 Encounter of Disparate Scientific Cultures and Misunderstandings -- 4.1.4 Multi-scalar Institutions and Collaboration -- 4.1.5 Fruitful Irritations-Anthropo-Scientific Openings -- 4.2 Strengths of the Anthropocene Idea Compared to Related Concepts -- 4.3 General Criticism-Diffuseness and Atlantocentrism -- 4.4 Ahistorical periodisation-The 'Great Divide' -- 4.5 Ideology-Depoliticization, Anthropocentrism, Gender Blindness -- 4.5.1 Background-Criticisms of Growthism and Plutocracy -- 4.5.2 Pathological Path Dependency Through Holocene "Success" -- 4.5.3 Industrial Interests and Scientific Skepticism -- 4.5.4 Alternative Economic Forms -- 4.5.5 Exceptionalism and Feasibility Ideology -- 4.5.6 Technicist and Macrosystemic Problem Framing -- 4.5.7 Actor Idealism-The Example of the Think Tank WBGU -- 4.5.8 Depoliticisation and the New Geopower -- 4.6 Bourgeois Universalism-Generalization of Responsibility -- 4.6.1 Overlooked Inequalities and Conflicts -- 4.6.2 Moral Claim despite Normative Indeterminacy -- 4.7 Welcome to the Neologismocene-The Many Names of Resistance -- 4.7.1 Inflation of Alternative '-cenes' -- 4.7.2 "-cene"-Misunderstood Geology -- 4.7.3 Capitalocene -- 4.7.4 Plantationocene -- 4.7.5 World-Ecology -- 4.7.6 Chthulucene -- 4.7.7 Technocene and Geosocial Formations -- 4.7.8 Urbanocene-Cities as Seismographs and Drivers of Change -- 4.7.9 Fixation on Naming and Specificity of the "-cene" -- Chapter 5: Anthropocene Anthropology-Contributions and Opportunities -- 5.1 In the Contact Zone of the Disciplines-Resonance in Cultural Anthropology -- 5.1.1 Between Buzzword and Radical Criticism of the Field.
5.1.2 Professional Aspirations and Classic Topics -- 5.1.3 Contouring, Disparity, and Precariousness of the Discipline -- 5.2 Cultural Anthropology-A Profile and a Position -- 5.2.1 Scales and Units -- 5.2.2 Anthropology as Experiential Cultural Anthropology -- 5.2.3 Criticism of Other Common Definitions of the Discipline -- 5.3 Grounded Anthropology-Nature, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene -- 5.3.1 Disparate Basic Anthropological Positions on Nature -- 5.3.2 Nature and Environment in Cultural Anthropology-Milestones of a Long History -- 5.3.3 Flexibility and Novelty: Enter Gregory Bateson -- 5.3.4 Climate Change Anthropology in the 2000s -- 5.3.5 Current Reception and Positions on the Anthropocene -- 5.4 Localization-Cultural Anthropology as an Advocate of Small Scales in the Anthropocene -- 5.4.1 Local Contemporary Perspective and Time Continuity -- 5.4.2 The Challenge-Large Issues in Large Places? -- 5.4.3 Anthropocene Everyday and Life-Worlds -- 5.4.4 Anthropocene Spaces, Places, Non-places, and the One World-Place -- 5.4.5 Field Research Beyond the Purely Human Dimension -- 5.4.6 Diversity, Inequality, and Mutual Relations -- 5.4.7 Multiscale Sustainability Instead of New Localism -- 5.5 Patchy Anthropocene-A Programme in the Mode of Demarcation -- 5.5.1 "Patchy Anthropocene" and a Retooling of Cultural Anthropology -- 5.5.2 Models and Cosmologies -- 5.5.3 A Non-academic Project in Scientific Garb? -- 5.5.4 Landscapes and Patchiness-Missed Connections -- 5.5.5 Self-Legitimation and Defensive Attitude Towards Natural Science -- 5.5.6 Commitment to Vagueness and Sprawling Analogies -- 5.6 Concepts-Meaning, Embodiment, and Assessment Procedures -- 5.6.1 Concepts of Resources -- 5.6.2 Environmental Cognition and Indigenous Allegories -- 5.6.3 "Ontologies" -- 5.7 Culture-Anthropological Holism Revisited.
5.7.1 Concept of Culture-Janus-Faced Reception in Global Environmental Institutions -- 5.7.2 Culture-Mode of Adaptation and Innovation -- 5.7.3 Holism-Culture Crosses Substance Categories -- 5.7.4 Culture Is Fundamentally Collective-Social Learning and Enculturation -- 5.7.5 Material Culture and Verticality-Geosocial Formations and Urban Anthropology -- 5.8 Local and Present-Oriented-Opportunities for Field Anthropology -- 5.8.1 Localism -- 5.8.2 The "Presentist Present" -- 5.9 Cultural Change and Cultural Revolution-Forgotten Specialist Literature -- 5.9.1 Adaptation and Sociality as the Basis of Anthropocene Action Effects -- 5.9.2 Evolutionism Revisited-Cultural Evolution and Directed Change -- Chapter 6: Conditio Humana-The Geologization of Culture -- 6.1 "Anthropogenic"-Humans in Nature -- 6.2 Cultural History Is Grounded in Earth History-The Geosphere as Palimpsest -- 6.3 Anthropos and Prometheus-Homo and Anthropos -- 6.4 Environment and Culture-Biocultural No Man's Land and Social Theory -- 6.4.1 Are We all Natural Peoples Now?-Ecological Nexus and Biophilia -- 6.4.2 Beyond Dualisms? -- 6.5 Beyond Sustainability?-Ecological Breaks Versus Holocene Thinking -- 6.5.1 Continuity and Fundamental Ecological Novelty -- 6.5.2 Double Bind in the Anthropocene-Contested "Nature Conservation" -- 6.5.3 Conflicting Time Horizons -- 6.6 Deep Time and Social Times-Paleontology of the Present -- 6.6.1 Planetary Transformation, Individual Biographies, and Missing Epochal Terms for the Future -- 6.6.2 Political Geology-The Long Present -- 6.7 Planetarity-Scale Clashes and Two Sides of Human Agency -- 6.7.1 Scales, Scalings, and "Battlefields of Knowledge" -- 6.7.2 Planetarity in Space and Time -- 6.7.3 Geology of the Household and Geological Agency -- 6.7.4 Power of Action vs. Effects of Action-Two Sides of Human Agency.
Chapter 7: Human Niche Construction and Niche Heritage- Building Blocks for Synthesis.
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