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Field guide to the patchy Anthropocene : the new nature / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou.
"A Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene leads the reader through a series of sites, observations, thought experiments, and genre-stretching descriptive practices to take stock of our current planetary crisis. This is a guide for researchers of many stripes; a book that nurtures and promotes a revitalized natural history in direct response to worlds falling apart"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 1503638669
- ISBN: 9781503638662
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 331 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Bringing field observation to the Anthropocene -- What makes a patch? -- Mapping the patch -- Hotspots in the patchy Anthropocene -- Unseasonal weather -- How to detonate an Anthropocene -- Others without history -- What is history? -- Histories of the future -- Piling -- Building and unbuilding -- Beyond piling. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 04, 2024). |
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"A Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene leads the reader through a series of sites, observations, thought experiments, and genre-stretching descriptive practices to take stock of our current planetary crisis. This is a guide for researchers of many stripes; a book that nurtures and promotes a revitalized natural history in direct response to worlds falling apart"--
