Anthropocene

Sociology

Biology

Politics

Philosophy

Political economy

Political science

Ecology

Geopolitics

Humanity

Ecological crisis

Global commons

Environmental ethics

International Affairs

Faced with an ecological crisis, International Relations (IR) is increasingly grappling with the idea that we have entered the Anthropocene––the epoch in which humanity, anthropos, has become the determinant factor in the shaping of our planet. In Savage ecology: war and geopolitics at the end of the world, Jairus Victor Grove intervenes in this literature by drawing attention to the specifically international arrangements of power and violence that condition this contemporary global crisis. The core argument of the book is that the Anthropocene is inadequate as a conceptual frame for understanding the current state of affairs. The damage being done to the Earth and its inhabitants is brought about not by humanity as an empty abstraction, but by a concrete project of homogenization through organized violence originating in the Euro-American metropole. Grove contends that the term ‘Eurocene’ better captures the parochial origins and discriminatory impact of this planetary-scale...

Savage ecology: war and geopolitics at the end of the world