Young People and the Anthropocene
What happens when human exceptionalism and methodological individualism, those old saws of Western philosophy and political economics, become unthinkable in the best sciences, whether natural or social? Seriously unthinkable: not available to think with. (Donna Haraway 2016)
The broadcast of David Attenborough’s flagship BBC television programme Blue Planet II has heightened our attention to plastics, especially in the UK. The final progamme in that series documented some of the damage that plastics are doing to the world’s oceans. Plastics have come to dominate environmental discourses to the extent that some environmental campaign …
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There are a number of interests that drive the work of this blog - and the conversations we want to foster through the conference in Bilbao in September 2019. These diverse concerns will be canvassed an a variety of ways in these spaces of the next months and beyond. If you search The Journal of …
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Young People and the Anthropocene 