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Approaching Human-Environment System (HES) based transdisciplinary processes: The case of Global Transdisciplinary Processes for Sustainable Phosphorus Management
Humankind is facing a new age, i.
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Surviving the Anthropocene: A Darwinian Guide
Brooks, Daniel R. and Salvatore J. Agosta. 2024. Surviving the Anthropocene: A Darwinian Guide. Global Perspectives, 5(1). https://doi.org/1...
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Storying the blue Anthropocene from the oceanic South: oscillating and turbulent perspectives on the planetary crisis
This project seeks new critical and creative perspectives on the planetary crisis in forms of storytelling from the global South and the southern hemisphere that address the oceanic and hydrological effects of the Anthropocene.
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The coloniality and necropolitics of nuclear sacrifice zones: The case of South Africa’s nuclear waste disposal site, Vaalputs
A key feature of the Anthropocene is the production of nuclear waste.
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The Anthropocene, the Climate Emergency and International Relations: Brazil and South Africa in a Changing World Order
The main objective of this project is the finalization of a monograph analysing the linkages between the anthropocene, climate change and International Relations.
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The Geopolitics of Language and Literature Migration
The Anglophone diaspora arose during the period we identify as the Anthropocene.
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The Sustainability of an Anthropology of the Anthropocene
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2022. The Sustainability of an Anthropology of the Anthropocene. Sustainability, 14(6), 3674. https://doi.org/10.33...
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Political ecologies of extinction: from endpoint to inflection-point
Büscher, Bram. 2022. Political ecologies of extinction: from endpoint to inflection-point. Introduction to the Special Section. Journal of P...
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Beasts of the Southern World: multi-species history and the Anthropocene
Charles Darwin jotted in his notebook in 1838, He who understands the baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.
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The “Big Hole”, Kimberley South Africa, 1870-1920
The chance find of a diamond on a small hillock in South Africa one hundred and fifty years ago initiated an industrial mining revolution, the effects of which continue to reverberate far into the future.
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The future of biological and cultural diversity: The implications of Anthropocene effects
Building on previous research on accelerated change and globalisation and on similarities between biological and cultural processes, this research project studies the ways in which global modernity reduces ecological diversity and cultural variation, and explores which measures are taken to counter this tendency, which takes away options for the future.
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Wilder Lives. Humans and our Environments.
Brown, Duncan. 2019. Wilder Lives. Humans and our Environments. University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press. http://www.ukznpress.co.za/?class=bb_ukz...
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Wildness
In this project, I engage with the concept of ‘wildness’, initially in the very problematic ways in which it is often used, but then more substantially in its possibilities for (re)thinking human, plant and animal identities, including in ways which decentre the human.
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Social-ecological systems and biosphere stewardship
Humanity interacts with the dynamics of the biosphere in new ways.
