Subtopic Deep Dive
Anthropocene Naturecultures
Research Guide
What is Anthropocene Naturecultures?
Anthropocene Naturecultures examines hybrid formations of nature and culture shaped by human dominance, emphasizing multispecies kinship, flourishing, and ethical spatial reconfigurations in landscapes.
This subtopic integrates humanities and social sciences to study entanglements of humans, animals, and environments under Anthropocene conditions. Key works include van Dooren et al. (2016) with 695 citations on multispecies studies and Lorimer (2012) with 337 citations proposing multinatural geographies. Over 10 provided papers since 2012 address these themes, with 223-695 citations each.
Why It Matters
Anthropocene Naturecultures informs urban planning for multispecies coexistence, as in Houston et al. (2017) analyzing kinship-making in cities amid ecological crises. It critiques temporalities of waste and violence, per Hecht (2018) on African Anthropocene contexts and Reno (2015) on waste management. Davis and Turpin (2015) link art to epistemological shifts for biodiversity ethics, guiding policies in climate-vulnerable landscapes.
Key Research Challenges
Bridging Nature-Culture Dualisms
Modern binaries separate nature from society, challenged by Anthropocene diagnoses (Lorimer 2012). Multispecies studies require new ethnographic methods to capture hybrid relations (van Dooren et al. 2016). Over 300 citations highlight persistent science-politics tensions.
Scaling Multispecies Temporalities
Anthropocene pressures demand interscalar analysis of waste, violence, and flourishing across temporalities (Hecht 2018). Planning theory struggles with human exceptionalism in urban entanglements (Houston et al. 2017). Lively ethnography tracks evolving relations but lacks standardized frameworks (van Dooren and Rose 2016).
Ethical Kinship in Crises
Plantationocene critiques reveal justice gaps in global environmental narratives (Davis et al. 2019). Wild experiments test flourishing but raise killing ethics (Lorimer and Driessen 2013). Over 500 citations underscore needs for non-human centered frameworks.
Essential Papers
Multispecies Studies
Thom van Dooren, Eben Kirksey, Ursula Münster · 2016 · Environmental Humanities · 695 citations
Scholars in the humanities and social sciences are experimenting with novel ways of engaging with worlds around us. Passionate immersion in the lives of fungi, microorganisms, animals, and plants i...
Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies
Heather Davis, Étienne Turpin · 2015 · Open Humanities Press eBooks · 616 citations
Taking as its premise that the proposed geologic epoch of the Anthropocene is necessarily an aesthetic event, this book explores the relationship between contemporary art and knowledge production i...
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, … Plantationocene?: A Manifesto for Ecological Justice in an Age of Global Crises
Janae Davis, Alex A. Moulton, Levi Van Sant et al. · 2019 · Geography Compass · 567 citations
Abstract The “Plantationocene” has gained traction in the environmental humanities as a way of conceptualizing the current era otherwise nominated as the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or the Chthuluc...
Interscalar Vehicles for an African Anthropocene: On Waste, Temporality, and Violence
Gabrielle Hecht · 2018 · Cultural Anthropology · 427 citations
How can we incorporate humanist critiques of the Anthropocene while harnessing the notion’s potential for challenging political imagination? Placing the Anthropocene offers one way forward; the not...
Multinatural geographies for the Anthropocene
Jamie Lorimer · 2012 · Progress in Human Geography · 337 citations
The recent diagnosis of the Anthropocene represents the public death of the modern understanding of Nature removed from society. It also challenges the modern science-politics settlement, where nat...
Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities
Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew et al. · 2012 · Environmental Humanities · 333 citations
Welcome to the first volume of this new, international, open-access journal.Environmental Humanities aims to support and further a wide range of conversations on environmental issues in this time o...
Make kin, not cities! Multispecies entanglements and ‘becoming-world’ in planning theory
Donna Houston, Jean Hillier, Diana MacCallum et al. · 2017 · Planning Theory · 275 citations
Much planning theory has been undergirded by an ontological exceptionalism of humans. Yet, city planning does not sit outside of the eco-social realities co-producing the Anthropocene. Urban planne...
Reading Guide
Foundational Papers
Start with Lorimer (2012, 337 citations) for multinatural geographies framing Anthropocene death of Nature; Rose et al. (2012, 333 citations) for unsettling humanities; van Dooren and Rose (2012, 206 citations) for storied-places in multispecies cities.
Recent Advances
Study Davis et al. (2019, 567 citations) on Plantationocene manifesto; Hecht (2018, 427 citations) for African interscalar vehicles; Houston et al. (2017, 275 citations) for planning kin-making.
Core Methods
Multispecies studies via passionate immersion (van Dooren et al. 2016); lively ethnography for evolving relations (van Dooren and Rose 2016); wild experiments rethinking environmentalism (Lorimer and Driessen 2013).
How PapersFlow Helps You Research Anthropocene Naturecultures
Discover & Search
Research Agent uses searchPapers and exaSearch to query 'Anthropocene naturecultures multispecies' yielding van Dooren et al. (2016), then citationGraph reveals 695 citations linking to Lorimer (2012) and Hecht (2018). findSimilarPapers expands to 50+ related works on hybrid landscapes.
Analyze & Verify
Analysis Agent applies readPaperContent to parse van Dooren et al. (2016) abstracts for kinship themes, verifyResponse with CoVe checks claims against 10 provided papers, and runPythonAnalysis computes citation networks via pandas for influence stats. GRADE grading scores evidence strength in multispecies ethnography.
Synthesize & Write
Synthesis Agent detects gaps in ethical reconfigurations across Lorimer (2012) and Houston et al. (2017), flags contradictions in natureculture binaries. Writing Agent uses latexEditText, latexSyncCitations for 20-paper bibliographies, latexCompile for reports, exportMermaid for temporalities diagrams.
Use Cases
"Analyze citation trends in Anthropocene naturecultures papers using Python."
Research Agent → searchPapers (10 key papers) → Analysis Agent → runPythonAnalysis (pandas citation plot, matplotlib trends) → researcher gets CSV export of 2012-2019 citation growth from Lorimer to Davis et al.
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Synthesis Agent → gap detection (Houston et al. 2017 gaps) → Writing Agent → latexEditText (intro), latexSyncCitations (15 papers), latexCompile → researcher gets compiled PDF with Oostvaardersplassen case from Lorimer and Driessen (2013).
"Find code for modeling multispecies networks in naturecultures."
Research Agent → searchPapers ('multispecies networks Anthropocene') → Code Discovery → paperExtractUrls → paperFindGithubRepo → githubRepoInspect → researcher gets Python scripts simulating entanglements from van Dooren et al. (2016)-linked repos.
Automated Workflows
Deep Research workflow scans 50+ papers via searchPapers on 'Anthropocene naturecultures', structures reports with GRADE on van Dooren et al. (2016) evidence. DeepScan applies 7-step CoVe to verify Hecht (2018) claims against Lorimer (2012). Theorizer generates theories on multinatural planning from Houston et al. (2017) and Davis et al. (2019).
Frequently Asked Questions
What defines Anthropocene Naturecultures?
Hybrid natureculture formations under human pressures, focusing on multispecies kinship and landscape temporalities (Lorimer 2012; van Dooren et al. 2016).
What methods dominate this subtopic?
Lively ethnography (van Dooren and Rose 2016), wild experiments (Lorimer and Driessen 2013), and multinatural geographies (Lorimer 2012) track entanglements.
Which papers have most citations?
van Dooren, Kirksey, Münster (2016, 695 citations) on multispecies studies; Davis and Turpin (2015, 616 citations) on Anthropocene art.
What open problems persist?
Interscalar ethics for African contexts (Hecht 2018), urban kinship scaling (Houston et al. 2017), and Plantationocene justice (Davis et al. 2019).
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