{"product_id":"planetary-social-thought-the-anthropocene-challenge-to-the-social-sciences-paperback-softback-9781509526352","title":"Planetary Social Thought; The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509526352","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePlanetary Social Thought\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNigel Clark (Author), Bronislaw Szerszynski (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509526352, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 October 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 15 x 1.8 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“We hear a lot about the global environmental crisis, but do we have the ideas to get us out of the problems we have collectively created? \u003ci\u003ePlanetary Social Thought\u003c\/i\u003e challenges social scientists and humanists to rebuild their intellectual house so as to help humanity think anew about a world to come.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoel Castree, University of Manchester\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePlanetary Social Thought\u003c\/i\u003e is a wide-ranging exploration of how closely intertwined, and how mutually sensitive, are the human and geological realms. This vivid and passionately argued book can help illuminate these new, emergent landscapes, and chart a path through them.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJan Zalasiewicz, University of Leicester\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This book offers a terra-forming analysis, strongly willed to make us think. Using more than one analytic perspective at once--geos and bios and what exceeds both--its scope ranges topologically from the planet to the microbe. \u003ci\u003ePlanetary Social Thought\u003c\/i\u003e is a feat of writing—and it is not afraid of animisms!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarisol de la Cadena, University of California, Davis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePlanetary Social Thought\u003c\/i\u003e takes the challenge of the Anthropocene to a new level. Rather than simply adopting a social science view of the planet, the authors allow planetary forces to redefine the very sense of the social, and allow the planet to take its place in the contested space of social entities. Clark and Szerszynski have redefined what “thought” will be for the twenty-first century.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A deeply interdisciplinary text that should spark a wide range of interpretive analytical possibilities. […] For the proliferating courses and lectures on the Anthropocene specifically, one sees this as becoming standard reading.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Global Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e scientific concept of the new millennium. Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship, Anthropocene science 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow 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-organizing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePresenting a social theory of the planetary, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in humanity’s relation to the changing Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: What Planet Are You On? \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Earth at the Threshold \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Who Speaks through the Earth? \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Planetary Social Life in the Making \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: What is Planetary Social Thought? \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Inhuman Modernity, Earthly Violence \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Terra Mobilis \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Unearthing Worlds, Decolonizing the Planet \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Conclusion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52463028273432,"sku":"9781509526352","price":16.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509526352.jpg?v=1785545868","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/planetary-social-thought-the-anthropocene-challenge-to-the-social-sciences-paperback-softback-9781509526352","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}