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Remembering the Anthropocene

Memorials Beyond the Human

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Authors:
  1. Clara de Massol de Rebetz

    1. Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King’s College London, London, UK

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  • Delivers theoretically informed analyses of a series of Anthropocene-related memorials
  • Proposes that memory in and of the Anthropocene, whilst accounting for human agency, can be legible through the nonhuman
  • Surveys the (geo)stories we tell about ourselves, and the ways we remember them under novel Anthropocenic conditions

Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Clara de Massol de Rebetz
    Pages 1-17

  3. Notes on Methodology

    • Clara de Massol de Rebetz
    Pages 19-27

  6. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-173
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    2. Don’t Follow the Wind and the Spatiotemporal Confines of the Nuclear Anthropocene: Future Memory and Synchronous Temporality

      • Clara de Massol de Rebetz
      Pages 175-206

    3. Forever Now: The Chicken at the End of the Road and the Plastic That Is Everything

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      Pages 207-239

    4. Conclusion

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      Pages 241-253

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 255-282
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About this book

This book provides a definition of the developing field of environmental memory studies. It reflects on the possibilities, challenges, prospects and limitations of culturally and collectively remembering (in) the Anthropocene. Located at the intersection of environmental humanities and memory studies, the analysis draws on and surveys a series of Anthropocene-related memorials, from a sculpture lost in Welsh waterways to cat colonies and perennial chickens. This leads to an examination of different memory agents across histories – past, present and future – and an investigation of memorialisation politics under new ecological regimes, within and beyond the human.

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“de Massol’s work is poised to make a significant contribution to the nascent field of environmental memory studies, offering a nuanced and detailed reading of original case studies, combining established and emerging critical material together into a compelling conceptual framework, and providing a new and refreshing account of future memory with and beyond the human.”—Lucy Bond, University of Westminster

Authors and Affiliations

  • Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King’s College London, London, UK

    Clara de Massol de Rebetz

About the author

Clara de Massol de Rebetz is lecturer and researcher based at King's College London, in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries where she also conducted her PhD. Her research, informed by a background in cultural and literary studies, examines the intersections of memory studies and environmental humanities. Her doctoral research was supported by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (AHRC), and she was the 2019 recipient of the Memory Studies Association’s Excellent Paper award.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Remembering the Anthropocene

  • Book Subtitle: Memorials Beyond the Human

  • Authors: Clara de Massol de Rebetz

  • Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50369-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50368-9Published: 15 February 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50371-9Due: 17 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-50369-6Published: 14 February 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6257

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 282

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Memory Studies, Anthropology

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