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Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent u201carts of living.u201d Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publicationu2019s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste-in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch.

Nature --- Homme --- Human ecology. --- Écologie humaine. --- Global environmental change. --- Changement global (Environnement). --- Effect of human beings on. --- Influence sur la nature. --- Human ecology --- Global environmental change --- Environmental change, Global --- Global change, Environmental --- Global environmental changes --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Anthropogenic effects on nature --- Ecological footprint --- Effect of human beings on --- Social aspects --- #SBIB:39A3 --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Changement global de l'environnement. --- Effets de l'homme. --- Effect of human beings onHuman ecology --- Change --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Anthropogenic soils --- Effect of environment on --- Climatic changes --- 504.03 --- 72:574 --- 39 --- Antropoceen --- Leefbaarheid --- Habitat --- Milieuwetenschappen ; sociale ecologie --- Architectuur en ecologie --- Culturele anthropologie. Etnografie, beschrijvende volkenkunde. Gebruiken. Gewoonten. Zeden. Tradities. Manier van leven --- Nature - Effect of human beings on --- Human ecology. Social biology --- ecology --- climate change