The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America

The Anthropocene has become the subject of a myriad of scholarly inquiries from just as many directions. The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS) presents one of these outlooks: The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America.

This series of handbooks published by Bielefeld University Press and edited by Olaf Kaltmeier, Eleonora Rohland, Gerardo Cham and Susana Herrera-Lima is the result of research originating from CALAS and systematically advances contributions that investigate the relations of environmental crises, earth systems and planetary boundaries that brought forth the Anthropocene. The editors recognise the Anthropocene as entangled with the causal relations of the multiple crises currently presenting on the planet. Departing from unique outsets of historically, culturally and environmentally contingent contexts, this research contributes to an empirically supported genealogy of the Anthropocene and its multiple crisis from Latin America.

The latest contribution to this series is

Climate Change: Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America III

This volume tackles climate change as one of the aspects of human activity and thus as constitutive of the Anthropocene. The scholars in this instalment conceptualise the climate as an expression of dialectical forces comprising the relation between the anthropos and nature. Editors Rohland, García Acosta, Goebel McDermott and Taks primarily investigate coping mechanisms of affected communities in the face of climate variation which is increasingly disturbed by human intervention.

Land Use: Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I

Edited by Kaltmeier, López Sandoval, Pádua and Zarrilli, the first volume of these handbooks focusses on the use of land in Latin America starting in the colonial period and ending in the contemporary era of the Anthropocene. Investigating social, cultural and material transformations in land and land use, this volume contributes to cutting edge scholarship regarding the concepts of land, borders and territories and their connotations.

Biodiversity: Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America II

The second handbook understands biodiversity as encompassing more than just biology. Diversity of the biological sphere in conjunction with the therefrom emerging cultures uniquely shape Latin America. Kaltmeier, Acker, Ávila Romero, and Horta Duarte (Eds.) aim to shed light on power relations between the human, the biosphere and everything in between from the colonial period up to the Anthropocene.

Water: Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America IV

The fourth handbook edited by Herrera-Lima, Gutiérrez and Mendoza Bohne concerns itself with water as a vital resource. This volume brings together research that investigates the use and impact of this resource in regard to Latin American and Caribbean communities. Control over water is also control over life and death. Therefore, the effects of the colonial conquest on these practices permanently impacted the understanding of water in the Anthropocene.

Visual Representations: Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America VI

Handbook VI investigates visual products that shed light on the socio-cultural dimensions of the environment in the Latin American Anthropocene. The scholars represented in this volume analyse these representations and their effects on the respective communities. The editors Cham, Kaltmeier, Camacho Becerra and Rashkin believe that studying the visuals elucidates the embedded notions which ultimately reflect back on the Anthropocene.

Discover The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America at Bielefeld University Press in Open Access and in print at transcript.