鈥淭he Anthropocene epoch,鈥 as Claire Colebrook describes it, 鈥渁ppears to mark as radical a shift in species awareness as Darwinian evolution effected for the nineteenth century鈥 (Colebrook 2017). The recent outpouring of ontological speculation on the Anthropocene across the humanities and social sciences certainly testifies to such a radical shift. Dipesh Chakrabarty鈥檚 insights about the Anthropocene are emblematic (Chakrabarty 2009). The Anthropocene, he argues, marks not only the moment in which the human, Anthropos, becomes fully expressed in the Earth System, but also, paradoxically, the moment in which we lose our ability to grasp what it means to be human. The Anthropocene is scary business. One of the aims of this special issue of Mobilities on 鈥楢nthropocene Mobilities鈥 is to add to this speculative moment by positioning 鈥榤obility鈥 as a key term of reference for thinking with, through and against, the Anthropocene as either a philosophical problem, a political concept, a material condition, or an epoch of deep time ….
: Shifting the Debate Edited by Christiane Froehlich (GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies), Andrew Baldwin (Durham University) and Delf Rothe (University of Hamburg)
by Sam Suliman (Griffith University), Carol Farbotko (Griffith University), Taukiei Kitara (independent), Celia McMichael (University of Melbourne), Karen McNamara (University of Queensland), Hedda Ransan-Cooper (Australian National University) and Fanny Thornton (University of Canberra)
Indigenous Mobility Traditions, Colonialism and the Anthropocene by Kyle Whyte (Michigan State University), Julia Gibson (Queen’s University, Ontario) and Jared Talley (Michigan State University)
by Ethemcan Turhan (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) and Marco Amiero (KTH Royal Institute of Technology0
by Stefanie Fishel (University of Alabama)
And Yet It Moves! (Climate) Migration as Symptom in the Anthropocene by Giovanni Bettini (糖心Vlog)
Forum 1: The Environmental Privilege of Borders in the Anthropocene 聽by Lisa Sun-Hee Park (University of California, Santa Barbara) and David Pellow (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Forum 2: The migrant climate: resilience, adaptation and the ontopolitics of mobility in the Anthropocene by David Chandler (University of Westminster)
Forum 3: Migrant Climate in the Kinocene by Thomas Nail (University of Denver)
Forum 4: by Stephanie Wakefield (Florida International University)




