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dc.contributor.authorBertelsen, Bjørn Enge
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-06T09:18:57Z
dc.date.available2021-08-06T09:18:57Z
dc.date.created2021-03-24T17:40:17Z
dc.date.issued2021-03-24
dc.identifier.issn0964-0282
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2766752
dc.description.abstractIn the age of climate change, human life’s pliability is also re‐shaping anthropological debates. For debates centring on the urban domain, questions revolve around flexibility, adaptability and resilience, while in work drawing on the Anthropocene similar ideas of human beings as subsumable to Gaia are emerging. This article reflects on how these perspectives interweave and imply a paradoxical human figure. On the one hand,they convey a being that simultaneously infuses, consumes and transmogrifies the world. Conversely, the human figure is forged by theoretical and analytical orientations that prescribe that one should abandon such a human‐centric reading of the world. The latter aspect is particularly evident in so‐ called ‘resilience governance’ discourses. These discourses presuppose a form of becoming less through reinventing humanity and human life as more adaptable to post‐future horizons of always already collapsed ecologies. Critically tracing this paradox, this article probes the urban Anthropocene and its lesser humans as desirable under the aegis of ‘resilience governance’ in Mozambique, crucially also mapping and analysing the involvement of utopic registers in defiance of such developments.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectSosialantropologien_US
dc.subjectSocial antropologyen_US
dc.subjectMosambiken_US
dc.subjectMozambiqueen_US
dc.titleA lesser human? Utopian registers of urban reconfiguration in Maputo, Mozambiqueen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Authorsen_US
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cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode2
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1469-8676.12988
dc.identifier.cristin1900821
dc.source.journalSocial Anthropologyen_US
dc.source.pagenumber87-107en_US
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 274943en_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Sosialantropologi: 250en_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Social anthropology: 250en_US
dc.identifier.citationSocial Anthropology. 2021, 29 (1), 87-107.en_US
dc.source.volume29en_US
dc.source.issue1en_US


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