Kumar, A. orcid.org/0000-0001-7958-7083 (2023) Ruptures of the Anthropocene: a crisis of justice. Dialogues in Human Geography, 13 (2). pp. 202-206. ISSN 2043-8206
Abstract
The Anthropocene and associated sense of crises, most prominently climate change, have opened up an urgency versus justice dilemma. While an epochal thinking drives the urgency, it is essential to attend to the ruptures illustrated by historical events like colonisation that shape the fabric of the Anthropocene and its impacts. Historical patterns of extraction and racialisation that underline the Anthropocene and climate change fit neatly into the schema for contemporary and future energy transitions shaped by an apolitical discourse of urgency and emergency. Attending to the historical ruptures helps root universal and apolitical urgency in justice for/from particular places and peoples and reframe ideas like climate emergency and climate crisis as more accurate climate justice emergency and climate justice crisis.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | the Anthropocene; ruptures; climate emergency; climate crisis; climate justice; urgency versus justice |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 Sep 2023 14:02 |
Last Modified: | 08 Sep 2023 14:02 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/20438206231155704 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:202950 |
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