The Indian Anthropocene is the Anthropocene seen from India, and it looks very different from here than it does from the West. It's also the working title of the first Bhumics book.
How the word moved
I first used it as the title of a newsletter in March 2018. In August 2022 it came back as planetary India.
In my words
"The anthropocene looks very different from India than it does from the west"
from 2018 Newsletter 4: The Indian Anthropocene, 19 Mar 2018
Related
- Related Anthropocene - the general concept I'm looking at from India.
- Related Metabolic Sovereignty - India's metabolic sovereignty is a case of it.
- Related Climate Panchayat - the Indian practice that keeps it on the ground.
Still open
Few of my essays actually develop it. The book plan carries it further than the essays do, so I suppose I'd better write the book.