Adrian Scribano, PhD – Principal Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Series: Social Psychology Research Progress;
BISAC: SOC000000; SOC026000; SOC026040
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52305/OQTE7140

“Some books seem to create a certain discomfort in the reader. This is one of them. Emotions and the Anthropocene does not merely describe the climate crisis as a geological or environmental phenomenon. What it does, and this is what makes it an excellent contribution, is raise the question of what we feel when the world breaks, why we feel what we feel, and how those emotions shape the way we imagine the future. The answer it develops over its seven chapters is both unsettling and productive. The book brings together contributions by leading authors, with perspectives ranging from ethnography to the analysis of sociological fiction. This diversity, far from producing divergence, forms part of a deliberate approach: the Anthropocene cannot be read from a single perspective, because its complexity calls for reflection from different parameters, contexts, and analytical keys. The result is a plural work, yet one with a coherent argumentative thread that keeps the reader anchored in reflective discomfort until the very last word.” – Eva Sotomayor, Full Prof. Sociology, University of Jaén, Spain

“The critical and cross-sectional analysis of the consequences of the Anthropocene is an urgent challenge for social sciences, and this book is an excellent example of an answer. In it, people can appreciate the logic of misery and the impact on suffering bodies of capitalism, which has radicalized its neoliberal view of society and human beings. These critical practices must be multiplied.” – María Emilia Tijoux, Full Prof. Sociology Department, University of Chile, Chile

“Emotions and the Anthropocene will surely be a reference text for those who want to understand the consequences of human actions on the planet. The connections between emotions, the climate crisis and the consolidation of the system of capitalist predation are analysed in this book in a way that allows the reader to understand the urgency of the problem and the critical contributions of a sociology of bodies/emotions.” – Gabriela del Valle Vergara Mattar, Prof. National University of Rafaela, Argentina

Emotions and the Anthropocene demonstrates that the Anthropocene is not only an ecological crisis but also a transformation of the politics of sensibilities: how bodies are disciplined, emotions mobilised, and futures imagined. From disrupted mobilities and apocalyptic affects to decolonial genealogies of climate emotions, acts of resistance, and utopian care, each of the seven contributions from renowned researchers reveal emotions as key infrastructures of power and possibility. The challenge ahead is to understand, contest, and reconfigure these sensibilities—to politicise them—so that care, reciprocity, and justice can guide collective life amid planetary disruption. In these scenarios, the Anthropocene emerges not merely as an environmental condition but as a profound reconfiguration of the politics of sensibilities. Taken together, these contributions call for future inquiries that interrogate how sensibilities are shaped, governed, and resisted in the Anthropocene, and how alternative emotional infrastructures—rooted in care, reciprocity, and decolonial justice—can be nurtured to confront the intersecting crises of our time.

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