Politics of Time and Mourning in the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene thesis makes it necessary for the social sciences to engage with temporality in novel ways. highlights interconnections between ‘natural’ and ‘social’ non-linear temporal processes. However, accounts of humanity’s history often reproduce linear, progressive narratives human development. This forecloses possibilities that thinking temporalities would offer political sciences. Engaging complexity as a moment rupture non-linearity allows acknowledge more fully affective impact living on disrupted planet. As discourse about rupture, is stocktaking already vast insecurities losses brought by exploitative relationships earth its inhabitants. In this form, how material legacies inequality exploitation shape our present delimit imaginaries future. By including reckoning violent pasts into future practices, productive politics mourning could take shape.