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

  • Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
Date:
[2024]
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"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.

Publication/Creation

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]

Physical description

vi, 331 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
    AOX /TSI

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ISBN

  • 9781503637320
  • 1503637328