A: The Historical Geography of Globalisation Flashcards
Who termed the Anthropocene?
Paul Crutzen (2006)
What % of biomass on Earth is natural
4%
Crutzen, 2002
Anthropocene
Chackrabarty, 2009
“For it is no longer a question of mankind having an interactive relation with nature, now it is being claimed that humans are a force of nature in the geological sense”
Gilroy, 2018
Not a homogenous humanity - bitter stratifcactions
Crosbie, 1972
Columbian exchange
Raworth, 2017
Manthropocene
Patel and Moore, 2018
History of the World in Seven Cheap Things - Nature, Work, Money, Care, Energy, Lives, Food
Wood, 2017
Depeasantisation and proletarianistion
Origins of capitalism
Polanyi 1944
- Double movement
- Embeddedness
- Role of state
Chomsky, 1984
Language as a reflection of societal values
Ogborn, 2008
- Slavery
- Cotton
- Britian developed due to a global network
- Global lives
Linebaugh, 2015
- Enclosures and privatisation
Fraser, 2022
- Capitalism effect on democracy, care work and the environment
Crosby, 2017
- Ecological imperialism
- European species and diseases shaped ecosystems and societies globally
Beckert, 2015
- Cotton transforming ecologies as well as economies
Benton, 2018
- Alienation of labour
- Impacts of enclosure
Foster, 2010
Metabolic rift betwen human society and nature
- Nature exploited beyond regenerative capacity
Moore, 2017
- Capitolocene
- Society/Nature dualism
Wallerstein, 2004
- World Systems Theory
Harvey 1972
- Limits to capital
- Accumulation by disposession
- Spatial fix
- Time space compression
Ingham, 2008
- Culture of consumerism
- Conspicuous consumerism
Bowles, 2007
- State of confidence
- Role of the state
Main critiques of the Anthropocene
- Homogenous humanity
- Not a single orbis spike
- Too anthropocentric
