Social Theories for the Anthropocene

Phoebe Godfrey is Professor in Residence of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her research interests include ecology, sustainability, climate change, food, social justice, and social theory. A scholar-activist, her research and teaching seek to put her personal commitments to equality, justice, and sustainability into practice. She is the author of Understanding Just Sustainabilities from Within: A Case Study of a Shared-Use Commercial Kitchen in Connecticut (Routledge, 2021) and co-editor of Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender (Routledge, 2016) and Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender (Routledge, 2016). She is the co-founder of the CLiCK (Commercially Licensed Co-operative Kitchen) in Windham, Connecticut.Ordoitz Galilea is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Susquehanna University, USA, where he teaches foundations and theory courses in sociology, as well as criminology, human rights, and environmental sociology. His research primarily focuses on community culture and how collective meanings are created, spread, contested, and impact upon individual behaviors. Currently, he is researching how community identity and values are presented through festivals and public celebrations, such as the annual running of the bulls in his native Pamplona, Spain.

• Foreword: Where Are We, Anyhow? Charles Lemert, Preface by Raouf Mama, How To Use This Book, A Note on Stories and Cultural Heritage, 1. Introduction Phoebe Godfrey and Ordoitz Galilea, Part I – Void: Origins, Birth, Emergence, 2. Introduction to Part I Ordoitz Galilea, 3. You’ll Never Believe What Happened: The Truth About Stories Thomas King, 4. The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, 5. Genesis (from The Holy Bible), 6. The Creation (from Metamorphoses Book I) Ovid, 7. Society as Objective Reality (from The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise on the Sociology of Knowledge) Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, 8. Introduction (from A Vindication of the Rights of Women) Mary Wollstonecraft, 9. The Woman I Love is a Planet: The Planet I Love is a Tree (from This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment) Paula Gunn Allen, 10. Pink and Blue Forever (from Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World) Anna Fausto-Sterling, 11. Social Facts (from The Rules of the Sociological Method) Emile Durkheim, 12. The Legend of Peugeot (from Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind) Yuval Noah Harari, 13. Black Feminism in Transnational Context (from Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment) Patricia Hill Collins, 14. Introduction (from The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise) Martin Prechtel, 15. Homo Sapiens: Born of the Earth (from The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering our Place in Nature) David Suzuki (with Amanda McConnell and Adrienne Mason), 16. Biyaal (preface) (from Indigenous Knowledge Production: Navigating Humanity within a Western World) Marcus Woolombi Waters, 17. There’s Knowledge In (from Fertile Ground: Beauty and Brokenness) Raluca Mocanu, Part II – Water: Spirit, Emotions, Meaning, 18. Introduction to Part II Zareen Reza, 19. Soul Sounds Cara Jackson, 20. Introduction (from Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence) Gregory Cajete, 21. Estranged Labor (from Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844) Karl Marx, 22. The Honorable Harvest (from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants) Robin Wall Kimmerer, 23. Aztec Creation Myth, 24. Of Our Spiritual Strivings (from The Souls of Black Folk) W.E.B. DuBois, 25. The Social Self – The Meaning of ‘I’ (from Human Nature and the Social Order) Charles Horton Cooley, 26. A Fable for Tomorrow (from Silent Spring) Rachel Carson, 27. Rachel Carson was Right – Then and Now (from Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment) Joni Seager, 28. Pythagoras’s Teachings: The Elements (from The Metamorphoses) Ovid, 29. Feminist Textual Analysis – The Problem of Sociological Description (from Texts, Facts and Femininity: Exploring the Relations of Ruling) Dorothy E. Smith, 30. A Matter of Tuning (from Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism and the Boundary Event) Trinh T. Minh-ha, 31. Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (from The Sacred Canopy) Peter L. Berger, Part III – Earth: Matter, Life, Bodies, 32. Introduction to Part III Ordoitz Galilea, 33. Earth Will Tell Mohja Kahf, 34. Diffracting Diffraction: Cutting Together-Apart (from Parallax) Karen Barad, 35. Chinese Creation Myth, 36. The Iron Cage: Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism (from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism) Max Weber, 37. Making Men, Making War (from Masculinity and the New War : The Gendered Dynamics of Contemporary Armed Conflict) David Duriesmith, 38. A Fruitless Endeavor: Confronting the Heteronormativity of Environmentalism (from Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment) Cameron Butler, 39. On the Instability of the (Notion of) Nature (from Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime) Bruno Latour, 40. The Birth of Athena (from Theogony) Hesiod, 41. Homeland Earth (from Journal of Conscious Evolution) Edgar Morin, 42. The Monogamous Family (from The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State) Friedrich Engels, 43. First Prefatory Discussion and Supplementary Note to the Second Prefatory Discussion (from Muqaddimah) Ibn Khaldun, 44. The Theory of the Body is Already a Theory of Perception (from Phenomenology of Perception) Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 45. Always and All-Ways, Trees Move Jasmine K. Brown, Part IV – Fire: Change, Strife, Resilience, 46. Introduction to Part IV Phoebe Godfrey, 47. Big BrotherReven Smith, 48. !Kung Hunter-Gathers: Feminism, Diet and Birth Control (from Science Magazine) Gina Bari Kolata, 49. The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 50. Global Environmental and Climate Justice Movements (from Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment) David Pellow, 51. Thinking-feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South (from Revista de Antropologia Iberoamericana) Arturo Escobar, 52. The Anomic Division of Labour (from The Division of Labour in Society) Emile Durkheim, 53. San Creation Myth, 54. The Subsistence Perspective (from The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader)Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, 55. Anthropocene and Environmental Justice (from Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change) Rob Nixon, 56. Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves (from This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation) Evelyn Alsultany, 57. The Ecosex Manifesto 2.0 Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle with Guillermo Gomez-Peña, 58. Indigenous Just Transformation (from Climate Justice and Community Renewal) Tom Goldtooth, 59. Exile is Never the Ending of the Story Mohja Kahf, Part V – Air: Illusion, Death, Transformation, 60. Introduction to Part V Ordoitz Galilea, 61. Coming Home (from Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of Civilization) Roy Scranton, 62. III (from Civilization and Its Discontents) Sigmund Freud, 63. Stories, Histories and Conclusions (from The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable) Amitav Ghosh, 64. Power of Death (from History of Sexuality) Michel Foucault, 65. The Trouble with Wilderness; or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature (from Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature) William Cronon, 66. Day of the Pipeline Mohja Kahf, 67. What Makes the Mainstream Media Mainstream (from Z Magazine) Noam Chomsky, 68. Colonization as Myth-Making: A Case Study of Aotearoa (from Being Indigenous) Moana Jackson, 69. Simply Serve Nature and All is Well (from One Straw Revolution) Masanobu Fukuoka, 70. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (from Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature) Donna Haraway, 71. Interdependent Ecological Transsex (from Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory) Bailey Kier, 72. The Rise of Critical Animal Studies (from Listening to Voices: On the Pleasures and Problems of Studying Human-Animal Relationships) Lynda Birke, 73. Becker’s Truth: Denial of Death as a Way of Life (from From Greed to Green) Charles Derber, 74. Inuit Creation Myth, 75. Bestiary Joanna Macy, Part VI – Aether: Dissolution, Regeneration, Flexibility, 76. Introduction to Part VI Phoebe Godfrey, 77. Where Do We Start? Devin Samuels, 78. The Power of Trees (from Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World) Wangari Maathai, 79. Womanism and Agroecology: An Intersectional Praxis Seed Keeping as Acts of Political Warfare (from Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender) Shakara Tyler and Aleya Fraser, 80. Hindu Creation Myth, 81. A Humongous Fungus Among Us (from Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections on Natural History) Stephen Jay Gould, 82. Exploring the Nexus: Bringing Together Sustainability, Environmental Justice and Equity (from Space and Polity) Julian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard and Bob Evans, 83. 'I Would Rather Be a Cyborg Than a Goddess': Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory (from PhiloSOPHIA) Jasbir K. Puar, 84. Being Human (or What?) in the Digital Matrix Lan: The Construction of the Humanated (from Post-Human Futures: Human Enhancement, Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory) Pierpaolo Donati, 85. Last Days of the Anthropocene – A Gallery Exhibit, with Questions Mohja Kahf, 86. There is a River in Me: Theory from Life (from Theorizing Native Studies) Dian Million, 87. On a Damaged Planet – Arts of Living (from Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet) Anna Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt, 88. The Illusion of Scarcity (from Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition) Charles Eisestein, 89. Someone Benjamin Todd, 90. Where is the Holy Land? (from Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future) Leslie Gray