JEDEDIAH PURDY - After Nature: A Politics of the Anthropocene

Nature, Politics and Architecture; Reading Out the Interaction of Nature, Politics and Culture Components in the Architecture Creating Process of Tabriz Blue Mosque

Tabriz Blue Mosque is a valuable historical monument from the 9th century AH, which has been built during the Kara - Koyunlu of Turkomans rule on northwestern Iran and about 35 years before the beginning of the Safavid Iranian government. This building has some features that make it to be distinguished from other monuments of the Azerbaijan region and even Iran. These features have attracted th...

Beyond mastery? Nature management during the Anthropocene

Climate Weirding and Queering Nature: Getting Beyond the Anthropocene

Though many scientists and scholars of the environmental humanities are referring to the current geological era as the anthropocene, this article argues that there are some problems with this trope and the narrative that emerges from it. First, responsibility for the current era of climate weirding is not shared equally, some humans are way more responsible than others. Second, the claim of the...

The Fractured Nature of British Politics

The outcome of the British General Election to be held in just over one week’s time (May 7th, 2015) is widely regarded as the most difficult in living memory to predict. Current polls suggest that the two main parties (Conservative and Labour) are neck and neck but that there will be a landslide to the Scottish Nationalist Party with that party taking most of the constituencies in Scotland (som...

Contingency, Politics, and the Nature of Inquiry

Contingent events are probabilistic. Acknowledging that realized contingencies alter observed political outcomes, however, does little to advance the systematic study of politics. This paper suggests that political science should focus on understanding how foreseeable contingencies, rather than truly “exogenous” unforeseeable events, alter political behavior. The most useful tool for understand...