Foreword

pp vi-viii

Contents

pp ix-x

Into the Anthropocene

pp xi-xii

Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and photography now

pp 1-27

Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet for ever

pp 28-40

Anthroposcenes

pp 41-41

Human marks

pp 42-46

Marked land

pp 47-48

Habitat destruction: the ecological crisis

pp 49-59

Extraction: minerals and carbon: oil

pp 60-77

Pollution: carbon: particulates and air quality; marine plastic; ingested plastic

pp 78-85

Environmental destruction, political power, and self-promotion in the arts

pp 86-93

Environmental justice: resources; confrontation of cultures

pp 94-105

Environmental consciousness: between worlds and times; contemplating global crisis

pp 106-109

Nuclear: ‘stagings’ and photo/performance works

pp 110-113

Chernobyl revisited: Marie Curie’s fingerprint: Nuclear spelunking in the Chernobyl Zone: the images of Aleksandr Kupny

pp 114-125

Ruin lust/Ruin porn?: What ‘ruin porn’ tells us about ruins – and porn

pp 126-130

Climate Change

pp 131-131

‘A cat in hell’s chance’: Why we’re losing the battle to keep global warming below 2°C

pp 132-137

Climate change: Ice

pp 138-145

Climate change: Flood

pp 146-150

‘Wild’/’Unwild’/’Rewild’ and Rephotography

pp 151-151

Walk on the wild side: Rewilding, hillwalking & history

pp 152-165

Natural process; Wildness; ‘Wild land’

pp 166-173

Not so wild? – human cultural traces

pp 174-177

Rephotography: an ecologist’s archive; habitat destruction; natural regeneration and rewilding

pp 178-195

Survival/Extinction: survivor species; vulnerable species; endangered species

pp 196-208

After the Anthropocene

pp 209-209

Imagined future biologies: plastic; jellyfish

pp 210-215