The Anthropocene is a concept which challenges the foundations of humanities scholarship
as it is traditionally understood. It calls not only for closer engagement with the natural …

ABSTRACT The Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site in Kazakhstan was conceived as an
experimental landscape where science, technology, Soviet Cold War militarism, and human …

The complex set of human‐driven global, social, technological, and environmental changes
intensifying dramatically since 1950 has been identified as the “Great Acceleration.” This …

Existing disaster studies scholarship tends to uncritically privilege official institutional
responses to disasters over bottom-up, community-based reactions and adaptations in the …

Identifying the potential dangers of the Anthropocene provides a useful path into a variety of
issues that are often ignored, misrepresented, or sidelined by the media. These dangers are …

The unprecedented and unsustainable impact of human activities on the biosphere
threatens the survival of the Earth's inhabitants, including the human species. Several …

The Anthropocene is built on complex technological systems that span the globe. Historians
of science have done much to document the emergence of this “technosphere.” Yet more …

" In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955, Ying Jia Tan explores the
fascinating politics of Chinese power consumption as electrical industries developed during …

The Anthropocene requires the development of new forms of knowledge and supporting
sociotechnical infrastructure. While there have been calls for both interdisciplinary and …

Nature (ziran) has been a key concept in Chinese art, yet the 'nature'celebrated in Chinese
shanshui paintings and gardens are already abstract inventions, bearing only tenuous …