eprintid: 10191366
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datestamp: 2024-05-02 10:01:07
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creators_name: Randazzo, Elisa
creators_name: Richter, Hannah
title: Challenging Anthropocene Ontology: Modernity, Ecology and Indigenous Complexities
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: J39
keywords: Political Science
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: Using the recent turn to ecology as a starting point, Hannah Richter and Elisa Randazzo bring ecological thinking into contact with Critical Indigenous Studies, in which awareness of the necessity for sustainable relations between humans and non-humans has long preceded Western Anthropocene discourse. Currently, the drastic ecological changes labelled as 'the Anthropocene' not only increasingly shape the political awareness and the priorities of citizens and governments, but also inform a large body of social scientific scholarship.

Indigenous scholarship and practice, in particular ecological adaptability, is intrinsically related to power structures and political struggle – hence indigenous understanding of Anthropocene discourses are intertwined with discourses of colonialism and political contestation. This book problematises the depoliticising character of Western Anthropocene discourses in relation to indigenous ecologies. The authors reveal how the anti-colonial struggles of Indigenous communities and the unequal distribution of responsibilities for and suffering from ecological change, are concealed and devalued in Western discourses of the Anthropocene.
date: 2024-04-18
date_type: published
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
official_url: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/challenging-anthropocene-ontology-9780755634699/
full_text_type: other
book_type: book
language: eng
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2091859
isbn_13: 9780755634675
lyricists_name: Randazzo, Elisa
lyricists_id: ERAND36
actors_name: Randazzo, Elisa
actors_id: ERAND36
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: restricted
place_of_pub: London
pages: 219
isbn: 0755634675
edition: 1st
citation:        Randazzo, Elisa;  Richter, Hannah;         (2024)    Challenging Anthropocene Ontology: Modernity, Ecology and Indigenous Complexities.       [Book].               (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing: London.      
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10191366/1/Randazzo_Anthropocene%20Ontopolitics%20Final_accepted%20version%2019%20April.pdf