The Paleolithic imagination:Nature, science, and race in Anthropocene fitness cultures

The widespread uptake of the Anthropocene concept over past two decades has seen a concomitant rise in cultural forms that trade on nostalgia for Paleolithic life. Mud running, CrossFit, and Paleo diet exemplify this trend, with hunter-gatherer at center their popular prescriptions healthy living. In article, we identify these practices as embodying anxieties well its historical racial elisions. By focusing oblique subtle racializations health fitness cultures, contribute to understandings significance human body relationship between biopolitics geological life, arguing is key site through which tensions inequalities are played out. And by unraveling how imagination rooted distinctly capitalist, Euro-American attitude nature, show be defined uneven distributions self-optimization, environmental risk. demonstrates tangled politics race, science, nature twenty-first century, global ecological instability, health, shadows colonialism, consumer capitalism converge.