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TY - JOUR
T1 - Organizing in the Anthropocene
AU - Wright, Christopher
AU - Nyberg, Daniel
AU - Rickards, Lauren
AU - Freund, James
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Organization, ? (?), 2018, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Organization page: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/ORG on SAGE Journals Online: http://journals.sagepub.com/
PY - 2018/7
Y1 - 2018/7
N2 - The functioning of the biosphere and the Earth as a whole is being radically disrupted due to human activities, evident in climate change, toxic pollution and mass species extinction. Financialization and exponential growth in production, consumption and population now threaten our planet’s life-support systems. These profound changes have led Earth System scientists to argue we have now entered a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. In this introductory article to the Special Issue, we first set out the origins of the Anthropocene and some of the key debatesaround this concept within the physical and social sciences. We then explore five key organizingnarratives that inform current economic, technological, political and cultural understandings ofthe Anthropocene and link these to the contributions in this Special Issue. We argue that theAnthropocene is the crucial issue for organizational scholars to engage with in order to not onlyunderstand on-going anthropogenic problems but also help create alternative forms of organizingbased on realistic Earth–human relations.
AB - The functioning of the biosphere and the Earth as a whole is being radically disrupted due to human activities, evident in climate change, toxic pollution and mass species extinction. Financialization and exponential growth in production, consumption and population now threaten our planet’s life-support systems. These profound changes have led Earth System scientists to argue we have now entered a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. In this introductory article to the Special Issue, we first set out the origins of the Anthropocene and some of the key debatesaround this concept within the physical and social sciences. We then explore five key organizingnarratives that inform current economic, technological, political and cultural understandings ofthe Anthropocene and link these to the contributions in this Special Issue. We argue that theAnthropocene is the crucial issue for organizational scholars to engage with in order to not onlyunderstand on-going anthropogenic problems but also help create alternative forms of organizingbased on realistic Earth–human relations.
KW - Anthropocene
KW - capitalism
KW - Earth systems
KW - narratives
KW - organizing
U2 - 10.1177/1350508418779649
DO - 10.1177/1350508418779649
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 455
EP - 471
JO - Organization
JF - Organization
SN - 1350-5084
IS - 4
ER -