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TY - BOOK
T1 - Planetary Social Thought
T2 - The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences
AU - Clark, Nigel Halcomb
AU - Szerszynski, Bronislaw
PY - 2020/10/30
Y1 - 2020/10/30
N2 - The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps _the_ scientific concept of the new millennium. Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship, it proposes that human activity is tipping the whole Earth system into a new state, with unpredictable consequences. Social life has become a central ingredient in the dynamics of the planet itself.How should the social sciences respond to the opportunities and challenges posed by this development? In this innovative book, Clark and Szerszynski argue that social thinkers need to revise their own presuppositions about the social – to understand it as the product of a dynamic planet, self-organising over deep time. They outline ‘planetary social thought’: a transdisciplinary way of thinking social life with and through the Earth. Using a range of case studies, they show how familiar social processes can be radically recast when looked at through a planetary lens, revealing how the world-transforming powers of human social life have always depended on the forging of relations with the inhuman potentialities of our home planet.
AB - The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps _the_ scientific concept of the new millennium. Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship, it proposes that human activity is tipping the whole Earth system into a new state, with unpredictable consequences. Social life has become a central ingredient in the dynamics of the planet itself.How should the social sciences respond to the opportunities and challenges posed by this development? In this innovative book, Clark and Szerszynski argue that social thinkers need to revise their own presuppositions about the social – to understand it as the product of a dynamic planet, self-organising over deep time. They outline ‘planetary social thought’: a transdisciplinary way of thinking social life with and through the Earth. Using a range of case studies, they show how familiar social processes can be radically recast when looked at through a planetary lens, revealing how the world-transforming powers of human social life have always depended on the forging of relations with the inhuman potentialities of our home planet.
KW - Anthropocene
KW - Society
M3 - Book
SN - 9781509526345
BT - Planetary Social Thought
PB - Polity Press
ER -