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SUMMARY:Capitalism\, the Anthropocene\, and climate process? - Dr Barbara 
 Bodenhorn\, Newton Trust Lecturer\, Social Anthropology\, Cambridge Univer
 sity
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CONTACT:Thanh-Lan Gluckman
DESCRIPTION:In 2003\, chemist Paul Crutzen suggested we had reached a tipp
 ing point\, shifting the globe from the Holocene to the Anthropocene\, an 
 era where humans had to be considered geologic agents in climate processes
 . In 2008\, post-colonial historian Dipesh Chakrabarty suggested that his 
 introduction to the idea of the Anthropocene has fundamentally changed his
  relation to his own discipline. Is the Anthropocene\, he asks\, the price
  we pay for freedom? Drawing on a number of cross disciplinary sources –
  from Carbon Democracy to The Future History of the Arctic – I use this 
 as an opportunity to explore how climate–as-process is currently being m
 odelled\, hoping to get beyond the often over-simplified ways these issues
  are presented to general publics. This is work in progress\, emerging fro
 m an interdisciplinary network on Climate Histories\, and forming part of 
 an introduction to a forthcoming volume\, In the Name of Climate Change. A
 s such\, I hope it will promote lively discussion on the part of the audie
 nce.   
LOCATION:Graduate Parlour (GP)\, Pembroke College
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