Time, temporality and environmental change

Edensor, Tim; Head, Lesley; Kothari, Uma

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.11.003

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“…Relatedly, recent critical theorists of the Anthropocene have noted that ‘dating the onset of the Anthropocene is a political and ontological as much as a scientific act’ (Saldanha, 2020: 13). Scientists and policymakers approach the Anthropocene ‘within a temporal frame that begins with processes of clearing forests and burning fuel and subsequently devolves into another temporal conception, the “great acceleration,” as large numbers of species rapidly become extinct and sea levels rise’ (Edensor et al, 2020: 256). Such depictions of the Anthropocene are regularly mobilised to connote crises and diagnose anticipatory actions to mitigate ecological impacts in the future (Erickson, 2020).…”

Section: Human–nature Relations and Space-times Of The Past Present And Futurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even as discussions of the Anthropocene and its geosocial worlds abound, Edensor et al (2020) remind us that there are other temporalities and less abstracted ways through which humans coexist with non-human or more-than-human agents. Writing about the ‘slow violence’ enacted by environmental governance bodies that focus on linear futures, Fitz-Henry (2020) shows how nature activists and indigenous communities deploy temporal strategies to ‘complicate both the speed and the relentless future-orientation’ (p. 261) of mainstream environmental policymaking.…”

Section: Human–nature Relations and Space-times Of The Past Present And Futurementioning

confidence: 99%

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Social geography I: Time and temporality

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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Time and temporality have gained renewed attention in the social sciences. This report examines such research in social geography, contextualising these developments in earlier geographical scholarship. It excavates the contemporary ways in which time and temporality’s relationship with space is conceptualised to analyse social relations, social inequalities and social justice. The report discusses three domains: intimate space-times, life stage and life-course; migration, mobility and social inequalities; and human–nature relations in the past, present and future. The report argues that the temporal framings and strategies of how people engage with unequal socio-spatial relations are core to the enduring concerns of social geographers.

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Section: Human–nature Relations and Space-times Of The Past Present And Futurementioning

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Section: Human–nature Relations and Space-times Of The Past Present And Futurementioning

confidence: 99%

Social geography I: Time and temporality

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have roundly critiqued the idea of the Anthropocene for its figuring of a universal Anthropos, implicating the human species in general for the coming planetary disaster. 33 A common response has been to call for renaming the current planetary moment in order to better locate the source of destruction -Capitalocene, Plantationocene, White-supremacy-scene are all good candidates. 34 Alternately, and more in line with my ambitions here, are moves to displace the planetary and universal with something more grounded and particular, as with Haraway's 35 Chtulucene and its focus on earthly, tentacular relatings in place.…”

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Haunting, ruination and encounter in the ordinary Anthropocene: storying the return Florida’s wild flamingos

Fredriksen

2021

cultural geographies

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In the spring of 2006 wild flamingos returned to Florida, though not to the places their kind had inhabited 100 years and more ago at the southern edge of the Everglades and the Florida Keys. Instead this group of flamingos alighted 80 miles northward in Palm Beach County’s Stormwater Treatment Area 2 (STA-2), a human-made facility for filtering anthropogenic pollutants from storm runoff. This paper takes the return of wild flamingos to Florida as a case for thinking through haunting, ruination and encounters in what I call ‘the ordinary Anthropocene’: the ongoing, everyday more-than-human relationships, actions and less-than-planetary assemblages through which the Anthropocene is sensed and lived. After setting out a case for thinking with haunting, ruination and encounter as a way of making sense in the ordinary Anthropocene, I trace three interwoven narrative threads that unspool from the encounter with the STA-2 flamingos: First, I trace the transfiguration of living wild flamingos into idealised symbols of tropical dreamworlds over the 20th century. This leads me sideways to the present-absence of flamingos in the mid-century writings of Rachel Carson and through her backwards to John J. Audubon and the genocidal ruinations of the 19th century as they flicker in the margins of his ornithological writings. I end by returning to the present, to the encounter with STA-2 flamingos in the ongoing moment of living with others in the late capitalist ecologies of south Florida. The conclusion considers what might be taken forward, into the uncertain future, from this telling.

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“…Yet while this urgency is certainly related to the effects of 'basic physics', it is also a social product. Edensor, Head and Kothari (2020) argue that while climate science may deal with linear time, what matters sociologically is temporality or the "social and cultural conceptions and perceptions of time" (p. 255). As social movements are constantly involved in the internal and external negotiation of knowledge and meaning (e.g.…”

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“…However, to varying degrees they are relevant in the Global South as well. Arguing that temporalities of climate change are place specific (Edensor, Head, and Kothari 2020;Cassegård and Thörn 2018), the chapter moreover develops the argument that temporality can be a useful tool in developing comparative research on climate activism -especially to build bridges between research on the Global North and South. In the remainder of this chapter, I first provide a brief overview of the (limited) comparative research on climate activism, after which I discuss the three urgency-related debates within climate activism.…”

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Time and Place in Climate Activism

Moor

2021

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics

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While comparisons across space are rare in literature on climate movements, time has long featured centrally in it—albeit often implicitly. That is because the climate movement is fundamentally shaped by the temporality of its main concern: climate change will have irreversible consequences that will become inevitable as soon as tipping points are crossed. Against this background, urgency has become an essential driving force behind and challenge for the climate movement. Yet while this urgency is certainly based in physics, it is also a social product. This chapter discusses how the contested nature of time shapes at least three core dimensions of climate activism: strategy, politics, and goals. The chapter further argues that discussions of temporality should be attentive to the contextuality of time: what might seem a future threat in privileged parts of the world presents only one of the more recent ecological disasters to disrupt disadvantaged communities worldwide. Contextualized discussions of time should therefore inform the development of comparative scholarship on climate activism and vice versa.

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Time, temporality and environmental change

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Social geography I: Time and temporality

Social geography I: Time and temporality

Haunting, ruination and encounter in the ordinary Anthropocene: storying the return Florida’s wild flamingos

Time and Place in Climate Activism

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