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An Anthropocene Primer

version 1.0, October 23, 2017

  • An Anthropocene Primer
    • Contributors
    • Participate in Open Peer Review of An Anthropocene Primer
    • Video Tutorial
  • Front Matter
    • Authors
    • Background
    • Table of Contents
  • Intro
    • What is the Anthropocene?
    • Taxonomies of Geological Time and the Anthropocene Epoch
    • Concepts
    • How to Use this Primer
  • Syllabus
    • How to Use This Syllabus
    • Module 1: What is the Anthropocene?
    • Module 2: Ethics, Justice, and Responsibility
    • Module 3: Anthropocene Voices
    • Module 4: Scale
    • Module 5: Policy
  • Activities
    • Anthropocenoscapes
    •  Deep Time Chalk Timeline
    • Framing the Anthropocene
  • Bibliographies
    • Touchstone Texts (Beginner)
    • Touchstone Texts (Intermediate)
    • Debates over the Anthropocene Chronology
    • Gender and Feminism
    • Capitalism and Empire
    • Art
    • Ethics, Ecocriticism, and the Environmental Humanities
    • New Materialism, Posthumanism, and Object-Oriented Ontology
    • Bibliografía / Spanish Language Resources
  • Blog
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Table of Contents

Foreword [Forthcoming by George Marcus]
Introduction

What is the Anthropocene?
A Taxonomy of Geological Time and the Anthropocene Epoch
Concepts
How to Use this Primer

Syllabus

How to Use this Syllabus
Module 1: What is the Anthropocene?
Module 2: Ethics, Justice, and Responsibility
Module 3: Anthropocene Voices
Module 4: Scale
Module 5: Policy

Activities

Anthropocenoscapes
Deep Time Chalk Timeline
Framing the Anthropocene

THEMATIC Bibliographies

Touchstone Texts (Beginner)
Touchstone Texts (Intermediate)
Debates over the Anthropocene Chronology
Gender and Feminism
Capitalism and Empire
Art
Ethics, Ecocriticism, and the Environmental Humanities
New Materialism, Posthumanism, and Object-Oriented Ontology
Bibliografía (Spanish Bibliography)

Conclusion

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Contact Us

Jason M. Kelly, PhD
Director, IU Indianapolis Arts & Humanities Institute
Professor of History
755 W. Michigan St., UL 4115T
Indianapolis, IN, USA 46202
jaskelly@iupui.edu

Fiona P. McDonald, PhD
Assistant Professor (Visual and Media Anthropology) Director, Collaborative + Experimental Ethnography Lab (www.ce2lab.org).  University of British Columbia | Okanagan Campus | Sylix Territory
272 Arts Building, 1157 Research Road
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada V1V 1V7
fiona.mcdonald@ubc.ca
@fionapmcdonald

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Version 1.0 of An Anthropocene Primer is hosted by the IU Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute as an open access book.

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