Metabolic rift, the Plantationocene, and zoonotic urbanization

Keywords: Metabolic rift, Plantationocene, urban political ecology, zoonotic urbanization
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Sunday
Session Start / End Time: 2/27/2022 08:00 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/27/2022 09:20 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 20

Abstract

In this presentation I want to explore the meaning of “metabolic rift” in relation to the urban epidemiological implications of the Anthropocene. I will suggest that the related term “Plantationocene” is a more useful entry point for exploring the political and temporal dynamics of extractive frontiers and their epidemiological manifestations under the complex dynamics of “zoonotic urbanization.” I will consider how a modified urban political ecology framework might extend to the affective, epigenetic, and mutating realm of human relations with non-human others, including the pivotal role of the human body as an incubator for the shifting zoonotic parameters of modernity.