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This book provides refreshing and critical conceptualizations of the Anthropocene from Latin American perspectives, addressing questions of coloniality and capitalism. Researchers from different disciplines introduce a variety of new concepts and approaches to explore the social, political and epistemological causes of the multiple socio-ecological crises and showcase alternative foci to cope with them.
The first key issue at the heart of the crisis of the Anthropocene is a reflection on life on Earth. This dimension includes biodiversity, the web of life, bio-centered cosmovisions, and the politics and ethics of care. Then, the focus shifts to mining and related extractivist development schemes. These perspectives place significant emphasis on Latin America's colonial history and its enduring legacies as well on the fundamental metabolic rupture. Technology, science, and infrastructure are also crucial to the Anthropocene. The contributions examine the question of agency related to infrastructure arguing that ideas of development and growth manifest in infrastructure and alternatives or change, and that they must always be considered in relation to existing structures. The volume concludes with discussion on urban spaces.
By offering a rich array of contributors from Latin America, the book provides students and researchers with new perspectives from the Global South on the new era of the Anthropocene.
Contents
1. Contesting the Anthropocene: Latin American Perspectives beyond Coloniality and Capitalism 2. The Anthropocene: A New Geological Era or Sociohistorical Shift? Critical Reflections from Latin America 3. Conquistal Mineralocene: Potosí, the Earth Eaters, and the World's Mechanization 4. Livestock, Commodity Frontier, and Plantationocene in Latin America and the Caribbean 5. Old and New Sacrifice Zones in Latin America 6. Care(full)! The Anthropocene: Between Exaltation of Life and Necropolitics 7. Aesthetics of Care and Urbanocene 8. Biocentrism in the Anthropocene: An Alternative from Mexico? 9. Agency in Posthumanism: The Role of Infrastructure in the Anthropocene 10. Science and Technology for Solar Energy Harvesting: South America and its Sustainability Laboratory (1872-1948) 11. After Pristine Nature: Exploring Posthumanist Approaches to the Urban in South America 12. The Anthropocene Settles in the Urban. The Urbanocene in the Global South 13. Green Urbanocene and Parks, Urban Forests, and Springs in the Twentieth Century as Narratives for Reading the City, Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara, Mexico
