Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalisation, Empire, Environment and Critique

摘要: Critique is about challenging the taken for granted categories in scholarly and political discourse. Three aspects of contemporary politics at biggest scales are subject to critique here: assumptions underlying War on Terror, globalisation notion environment. The global Terror not really global, might well be better understood by using imperial analogies from past. Globalisation, once its implicit geographies directly addressed, as a matter glurbanisation. Likewise earth system science, suggestion that human actions now such large scale we live new geological period, Anthropocene, requires us rethink our living within an external Taken together these criticisms spatial life raise big questions how geography teach it future. Such analysis also suggests continued importance intellectual practice academy.