Field guide to the patchy Anthropocene : the new nature / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou.

Author/creator Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt author.
Other author Deger, Jennifer, author.
Other author Saxena, Alder Keleman, author.
Other author Zhou, Feifei, author.
Format Book
PublicationStanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]
Descriptionvi, 331 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Bringing field observation to the Anthropocene -- What makes a patch? -- Mapping the patch -- Hotspots in the patchy Anthropocene -- Unseasonal weather -- How to detonate an Anthropocene -- Others without history -- What is history? -- Histories of the future -- Piling -- Building and unbuilding -- Beyond piling.
Abstract "A Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene leads the reader through a series of sites, observations, thought experiments, and genre-stretching descriptive practices to take stock of our current planetary crisis. This is a guide for researchers of many stripes; a book that nurtures and promotes a revitalized natural history in direct response to worlds falling apart"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. Field guide to the patchy Anthropocene Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2024 9781503638662
LCCN 2023028438
ISBN9781503637320
ISBN1503637328 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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