Cultural History and the Anthropocene
Old Turns, New Encounters
Anders Ekström (Anthology Editor) , Marit Ruge Bjærke (Anthology Editor) , Brita Brenna (Anthology Editor) , John Ødemark (Anthology Editor)
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Cultural History and the Anthropocene
Old Turns, New Encounters
Anders Ekström (Anthology Editor) , Marit Ruge Bjærke (Anthology Editor) , Brita Brenna (Anthology Editor) , John Ødemark (Anthology Editor)
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This open access collection is a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and contributions of cultural history to contemporary and cross-disciplinary discussions of the Anthropocene.
Organised into three key sections, this volume is a concise and critical overview of interdisciplinary research on the cultural history of the Anthropocene. The first part introduces readers to the key conceptual and theoretical challenges of Anthropocene debates, before the second part analyses a variety of case studies, to highlight how ethnography and cultural history can make certain processes visible and historically tangible. Key case studies explored by the volume range from sustainability in poultry production, to 18th century mining, to natural history and the works of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. Finally, the third section explores 5 critical approaches to Anthropocene discourse, and the challenges it may pose to alternative styles of cultural history.
Overall, this volume offers a synthesis of conceptual, historical, and critical approaches, that when combined provide a detailed overview of the latest research surrounding the cultural history of the Anthropocene.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Norwegian Research Council and the University of Bergen.
Table of Contents
PART I:
UNLOCKING THE FOUNDATIONS: KEY CONCEPTS IN CULTURAL HISTORY
1. Anders Ekström: Centres of Temporalization: The Tarfala Experience
2. Hugo Reinert: Fieldwork: Writing (on) a Damaged Planet
3. Helge Jordheim: Periodization in Cultural History: From the Enlightenment to the Anthropocene
4. Aike P. Rots: Rituals, Environments, and More-Than-Human Relations
5. Staffan Bergwik: Multitemporality and Cultural History of Science
6. Hedda Susanne Molland: Talking About What Anthropocene? How Conflicting Articulations May Inform Cultural History
7. Brita Brenna: Arctic Heritage: Territory, thing, and the history of it all
PART II: CASE STUDIES: CULTURAL HISTORIES IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
8. Marit Ruge Bjærke: Heading for Venus? When Bad Planets Make Good Warnings
9. Marta Arnaldi: Giacomo Leopardi in the Anthropocene: Translating the Non-Human from Animals to AI
10. Sverker Sörlin and Eric Paglia: Bounding – Economic Thought for the Anthropocene
11. Marie-Theres Federhofer: 'Enlightened Anthropocentrism' in Early Nineteenth-Century Geology: Henrik Steffens (1773–1845) and Leopold von Buch (1774–1853)
12. Frida Hastrup: Anthropocene Volatility. Ethnographic Discussions of Poultry
13. Siv Frøydis Berg: Don't Try to be Human! Goethe's Challenge of Anthropocentrism in Faust II
14. Bergsveinn Þórsson, Merve Tabur and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay: This Thing We Call the Future: The Material Consequences of the Imagination
PART III: INTERVENTIONS: CRITICAL ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN CULTURAL HISTORY AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
15. Gro Ween, Silje Opdahl Mathisen and Åsmund Steinsholm: Control: Attempting to Tame the World
16. Dirk Johannsen: Narrative Cultures in the Anthropocene: Worldmaking as Active Inference
17. Åmund Norum Resløkken: Waiting for the Noösphere: The Cultural History in Crutzen and Stoermer's 'The “Anthropocene”'
18. Clemet Askheim and Trine K. Haagensen: From Worlding the Earth to Earthing the World: The Anthropocene as a New Metaphysics?
Conclusion: John Ødemark:Anthropos and Humanitas – Untranslating Cultural History for the Anthropocene
Product details
| Published | 22 Jan 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 368 |
| ISBN | 9781350532601 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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