INTERSCALAR VEHICLES FOR AN AFRICAN ANTHROPOCENE On Waste, Temporality, and Violence

• Published in: Cultural anthropology Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 109 - 141
• Main Author: HECHT, GABRIELLE
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington Wiley 01.02.2018; American Anthropological Association
• Subjects: Anthropocene; Anthropology; Cultural anthropology; Epistemology; Ethics; Imagination; Narratives; Original Articles; Political power; Politics; Stratigraphy; Time; Uranium; Violence; Gabon

How can we incorporate humanist critiques of the Anthropocene while harnessing the notion’s potential for challenging political imagination? Placing the Anthropocene offers one way forward; the notion of an African Anthropocene offers a productive paradox that holds planetary temporality and specifi...