Voices from the Anthropocene. Maps and Frameworks for Ecological Conflicts

The aim of the project is to develop an innovative framework for a better understanding of ecological crisis. The current approach is based on the idea that we are going through a global crisis of nature. However, the Anthropocene hypothesis, a geological epoch marked by industrial activities, shows that what we are facing is not a crisis of ""natural entities"", but a crisis of the concept of nature. Accounting for this semantic instability in ecological controversies allows us to see conflicts of representations where different social groups ""give voice"" to non-human entities. Our aim is to provide a transferable protocol to deal with that, consisting in i) deconstructing non-transformative rhetoric on environment