Olaf Kaltmeier, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Ibero-American History at Bielefeld University, Director of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS) and Founding Director of the Center for Inter American Studies (CIAS). He conducts the international collaborative research project "Turning Land into Capital," funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung.Luisa Raquel Ellermeier is a researcher at the Center for InterAmerican Studies Studies (CIAS) and an editor at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her work combines research, teaching, and editorial expertise, with an interdisciplinary focus on film representations of gender, indigenous resistance, human–animal relations, alterity, and subalternity in the inter-American context.Eric Rummelhoff earned his master’s in InterAmerican studies at Bielefeld University. Since then, his work has focused on translating and editing the results of work done at the Merian Sibylla Maria Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS), particularly the handbook series The Anthropocene as a Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America.Omar Sierra Cháves is a PhD candidate in Latin American History (Bielefeld University/University of the Basque Country). His research examines land appropriations, cacao, and coloniality in nineteenth-century Venezuela and is part of the project "Turning Land into Capital." His professional experience includes editorial work on the Handbook The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America at CALAS.Ann-Kathrin Volmer, PhD, is a guest researcher in the Department for Geography at the University of Bonn. Her research is centered on the subjects of water governance and socio-ecological conflicts in Colombia and Ecuador. She has served as the co-manager of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico.

• 1. Contesting the Anthropocene: Latin American Perspectives beyond Coloniality and Capitalism 2. The Anthropocene: A New Geological Era or Sociohistorical Shift? Critical Reflections from Latin America 3. Conquistal Mineralocene: Potosí, the Earth Eaters, and the World’s Mechanization 4. Livestock, Commodity Frontier, and Plantationocene in Latin America and the Caribbean 5. Old and New Sacrifice Zones in Latin America 6. Care(full)! The Anthropocene: Between Exaltation of Life and Necropolitics 7. Aesthetics of Care and Urbanocene 8. Biocentrism in the Anthropocene: An Alternative from Mexico? 9. Agency in Posthumanism: The Role of Infrastructure in the Anthropocene 10. Science and Technology for Solar Energy Harvesting: South America and its Sustainability Laboratory (1872-1948) 11. After Pristine Nature: Exploring Posthumanist Approaches to the Urban in South America 12. The Anthropocene Settles in the Urban. The Urbanocene in the Global South 13. Green Urbanocene and Parks, Urban Forests, and Springs in the Twentieth Century as Narratives for Reading the City, Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara, Mexico

Olaf Kaltmeier, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Ibero-American History at Bielefeld University, Director of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS) and Founding Director of the Center for Inter American Studies (CIAS). He conducts the international collaborative research project "Turning Land into Capital," funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung.Luisa Raquel Ellermeier is a researcher at the Center for InterAmerican Studies Studies (CIAS) and an editor at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her work combines research, teaching, and editorial expertise, with an interdisciplinary focus on film representations of gender, indigenous resistance, human–animal relations, alterity, and subalternity in the inter-American context.Eric Rummelhoff earned his master’s in InterAmerican studies at Bielefeld University. Since then, his work has focused on translating and editing the results of work done at the Merian Sibylla Maria Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS), particularly the handbook series The Anthropocene as a Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America.Omar Sierra Cháves is a PhD candidate in Latin American History (Bielefeld University/University of the Basque Country). His research examines land appropriations, cacao, and coloniality in nineteenth-century Venezuela and is part of the project "Turning Land into Capital." His professional experience includes editorial work on the Handbook The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America at CALAS.Ann-Kathrin Volmer, PhD, is a guest researcher in the Department for Geography at the University of Bonn. Her research is centered on the subjects of water governance and socio-ecological conflicts in Colombia and Ecuador. She has served as the co-manager of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico.

• 1. Contesting the Anthropocene: Latin American Perspectives beyond Coloniality and Capitalism 2. The Anthropocene: A New Geological Era or Sociohistorical Shift? Critical Reflections from Latin America 3. Conquistal Mineralocene: Potosí, the Earth Eaters, and the World’s Mechanization 4. Livestock, Commodity Frontier, and Plantationocene in Latin America and the Caribbean 5. Old and New Sacrifice Zones in Latin America 6. Care(full)! The Anthropocene: Between Exaltation of Life and Necropolitics 7. Aesthetics of Care and Urbanocene 8. Biocentrism in the Anthropocene: An Alternative from Mexico? 9. Agency in Posthumanism: The Role of Infrastructure in the Anthropocene 10. Science and Technology for Solar Energy Harvesting: South America and its Sustainability Laboratory (1872-1948) 11. After Pristine Nature: Exploring Posthumanist Approaches to the Urban in South America 12. The Anthropocene Settles in the Urban. The Urbanocene in the Global South 13. Green Urbanocene and Parks, Urban Forests, and Springs in the Twentieth Century as Narratives for Reading the City, Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara, Mexico

Olaf Kaltmeier, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Ibero-American History at Bielefeld University, Director of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS) and Founding Director of the Center for Inter American Studies (CIAS). He conducts the international collaborative research project "Turning Land into Capital," funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung.Luisa Raquel Ellermeier is a researcher at the Center for InterAmerican Studies Studies (CIAS) and an editor at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her work combines research, teaching, and editorial expertise, with an interdisciplinary focus on film representations of gender, indigenous resistance, human–animal relations, alterity, and subalternity in the inter-American context.Eric Rummelhoff earned his master’s in InterAmerican studies at Bielefeld University. Since then, his work has focused on translating and editing the results of work done at the Merian Sibylla Maria Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS), particularly the handbook series The Anthropocene as a Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America.Omar Sierra Cháves is a PhD candidate in Latin American History (Bielefeld University/University of the Basque Country). His research examines land appropriations, cacao, and coloniality in nineteenth-century Venezuela and is part of the project "Turning Land into Capital." His professional experience includes editorial work on the Handbook The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America at CALAS.Ann-Kathrin Volmer, PhD, is a guest researcher in the Department for Geography at the University of Bonn. Her research is centered on the subjects of water governance and socio-ecological conflicts in Colombia and Ecuador. She has served as the co-manager of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico.

• 1. Contesting the Anthropocene: Latin American Perspectives beyond Coloniality and Capitalism 2. The Anthropocene: A New Geological Era or Sociohistorical Shift? Critical Reflections from Latin America 3. Conquistal Mineralocene: Potosí, the Earth Eaters, and the World’s Mechanization 4. Livestock, Commodity Frontier, and Plantationocene in Latin America and the Caribbean 5. Old and New Sacrifice Zones in Latin America 6. Care(full)! The Anthropocene: Between Exaltation of Life and Necropolitics 7. Aesthetics of Care and Urbanocene 8. Biocentrism in the Anthropocene: An Alternative from Mexico? 9. Agency in Posthumanism: The Role of Infrastructure in the Anthropocene 10. Science and Technology for Solar Energy Harvesting: South America and its Sustainability Laboratory (1872-1948) 11. After Pristine Nature: Exploring Posthumanist Approaches to the Urban in South America 12. The Anthropocene Settles in the Urban. The Urbanocene in the Global South 13. Green Urbanocene and Parks, Urban Forests, and Springs in the Twentieth Century as Narratives for Reading the City, Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara, Mexico