Planet Work
Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene
By Amanda Adams, Daniel Clausen, David Rodland, James Armstrong, Jennifer K. Ladino, Jo Rey, Kevin Maier, Matt Wanat, Ryan Hediger, Sharon O'Dair, Sinan Akilli, Ted Geier, Will Elliot | Publisher: Bucknell University Press
About the book
Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental humanities for its profound role in climate change and other crises. This collection of essays demonstrates the urgent need to rethink models and customs of labor and leisure in the Anthropocene. Recognizing the grave traumas and hazards plaguing planet Earth, contributors expose fundamental flaws in ideas of work and search for ways to redirect cultures toward more sustainable modes of life. These essays evaluate Anthropocene frames of interpretation, dramatize problems and potentials in regimes of labor, and explore leisure practices such as walking and storytelling as modes of recasting life, while a coda advocates reviving notions of work as craft.
Editions of Planet Work
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- ISBN 9781684484584
- EBook
- ISBN 9781684484607
- PDF
- ISBN 9781684484621
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Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental humanities for its profound role in climate change and other crises. This collection of essays demonstrates the urgent need to rethink models and customs of labor and leisure in the Anthropocene. Recognizing the grave traumas and hazards plaguing planet Earth, contributors expose fundamental flaws in ideas of work and search for ways to redirect cultures toward more sustainable modes of life. These essays evaluate Anthropocene frames of interpretation, dramatize problems and potentials in regimes of labor, and explore leisure practices such as walking and storytelling as modes of recasting life, while a coda advocates reviving notions of work as craft.
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What is Planet Work about?
Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental humanities for its profound role in climate change and other crises. This collection of essays demonstrates the urgent need to rethink models and customs of labor and leisure in the Anthropocene. Recognizing the grave traumas and hazards plaguing planet Earth, contributors expose fundamental flaws in ideas of work and search for ways to redirect cultures toward more sustainable modes of life. These essays evaluate Anthropocene frames of interpretation, dramatize problems and potentials in regimes of labor, and explore leisure practices such as walking and storytelling as modes of recasting life, while a coda advocates reviving notions of work as craft.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Planet Work?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Planet Work?
Amanda Adams, Daniel Clausen, David Rodland, James Armstrong, Jennifer K. Ladino, Jo Rey, Kevin Maier, Matt Wanat, Ryan Hediger, Sharon O'Dair, Sinan Akilli, Ted Geier, Will Elliot
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Planet Work is available as paperback(ISBN 9781684484584) and ebook(ISBN 9781684484607) and pdf(ISBN 9781684484621)
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