タイトル: Into a New Epoch: Capitalist Nature in the Plantationocene
発表者:
Anna Tsing (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Jun Akamine (Hitotsubashi University)
Noboru Ishikawa (CSEAS)
日時： 2019年10月25日（金）13:30～17:00（終了後、懇親会あり)
場所： 稲盛財団記念館 3F 中会議室
言語： 英語
本セミナーでは、文化人類学者Anna Tsingさんをお招きし、自然と人間の関係を問い、地球と現代社会が直面している諸問題を理解するために、Anthropocene（人新世）に代わるPlantationocene (プランテーション新世)という人類史の区分概念を提示します。プランテーションに関する考察を通して、人間中心的な環境の理解や自然vs.社会の二元論を超えた新しい学際研究の可能性を探ります。
また、本セミナーは、以下２冊の出版記念も兼ねています。
・『マツタケ：不確定な時代を生きる術』（Anna Tsing著、赤嶺淳訳）
・『Anthropogenic Tropical Forests: Human-Nature Interfaces on the Plantation Frontier』（石川登・祖田亮次 共編著）
どなたでも自由にご参加いただけます。
This seminar presents yet another geological epoch, which we term the Plantationocene. While the idea of the Anthropocene has gained considerable currency in recent years, we instead use this concept of Plantationocene to offer fresh perspectives that go beyond conventional, human-centric understandings of nature as well as the human/nature dichotomy through case studies of multispecies in plantation systems. Through this approach, we aim to bridge a deep divide between the natural sciences and social sciences, combine ethnographic and data-driven methodologies, and present an empirically grounded and historically informed study of human, non-human and their environments.
The seminar will be followed by the book launch of the following two new books:
– Japanese translation of The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna L. Tsing, Princeton U.P, 2015. Translated by Jun Akamine, published by Misuzu Shobo, Japan, 2019.
– Ishikawa, Noboru & Ryoji Soda (eds.), Anthropogenic Tropical Forests: Human-Nature Interfaces on the Plantation Frontier: Springer Nature, 2019.
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Program
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13:30
Moderator: Julie Ann Delos Reyes (CSEAS)
Opening Remarks
Noboru Ishikawa (CSEAS)
13:40
Plantationocene: Life in Past and Coming Ruins
Anna Tsing (University of California, Santa Cruz)
14:10
Anthropogenic Tropical Forests: Human-Nature Interfaces on the Plantation Frontier
Noboru Ishikawa (CSEAS)
14:40 – 14:50 Tea Break
14:50
Whale and Orangutan: A Possible Link between Whale Oil and Palm Oil
Jun Akamine (Hitotsubashi University)
15:20
General Discussion
15:50
Moderator: Miles Kenney-Lazar (NUS)
Book Launch
17:00 – 18:00 Reception
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