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Welcome to an open lecture with Eric Macé, Professor at the Faculty of Sociology and vice-president of the university of Bordeaux for social and ecological transition!

Professor Eric Macé visits Uppsala 7-11 April as an ENLIGHT scholar. As part of the Enlight Network EASE and CEMUS Erik gives the following lecture.

When: April 9 at 15.15-17.00 CEST

Where: CEMUS Library, Geocentrum, Villavägen 16, see map here https://link.mazemap.com/gVZ978v2

Online: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/62264004788

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We are already emerging from the Anthropocene
Anthropocene is not a new long-term geoplanetary era but the retrospective name we must give to Western modernity, with a start date of 1492 and a probable end date in the 21st century. Either because the transition policies will have allowed a drastic reduction in anthropogenic pressure, or because the failure of these transition policies will lead to ecological, economic and social collapses which will also result in a drastic reduction in anthropogenic pressure – and therefore the end of the Anthropocene.

 

Eric Macé was trained in the sociology of action and social movements by Alain Touraine at EHESS, Paris. He is currently a professor at the Faculty of Sociology and vice-president of the university of Bordeaux for social and ecological transition. He works on the dynamics of power relations in the fields of culture, race and gender relations. He currently develops a “sociology of the anthropocene”. He has notably published “After the society. Handbook of augmented sociology” (2019, in French) and “From patriarchy to composite gender arrangements? Theorizing the historicity of social relations of gender”, Social Politics, 15 (3): 317-336.