The Anthropocene and the End of Nature

Cross-cultural overview of intellectual debates in Environmental Anthropology, with an emphasis on modern life, inequality, and cultural politics after the end of the Western idea of pure nature. Topics include the notion of the anthropocene and the history of anthropogenic natures, human adaptation, climate change, resource extraction and dependency, environmental scarcity, environmental racism, extinction and biodiversity, the engineering of life forms, green capitalism, and global environmental movements.