In this online seminar we will hear from the authors of the newly published book: “South Anthropocenes”. This wide-ranging edited volume explores the changing landscape of problems, challenges, and possibilities that emerge once the macroscopic notion of the Anthropocene is replaced with Southern Anthropocenes. Southern Anthropocenes is a proposal that opens possibilities for forms and ends of life that exceeds—while remaining in partial relation with—modern socio-economic horizons and the determinations of the geo-, eco-, and climate sciences. What happens empirically and conceptually if the Anthropocene is resituated in Southern territories that multiply both scenes of and proposals for construction, address, and redress? What happens if Southern Anthroposcenes are allowed to multiply, and room is made for practices of worlding and life that are impossible from within the singular Anthropocene?

This seminar will involve several of the book’s contributing authors:

Casper Bruun Jensen, introduction to “Southern Anthropocenes”. Casper Bruun Jensen is the author of Monitoring Movements in Development Aid (with Brit Ross Winthereik) (2013) and the editor of Deleuzian Intersections with Kjetil Rödje (2009) and Infrastructures and Social Complexity with Penny Harvey and Atsuro Morita (2016). His work focuses on climate, infrastructures, and speculative and practical ontologies.

Iveta Silova (with Bea Rodriguez-Fransen and Victoria Desimoni) (Arizona State University) on “Decolonial Portals as Pedagogical Practice”. Iveta Silova grew up in Soviet Latvia, witnessing education’s role in shaping narratives of progress that silenced ecological and cultural voices. Now a professor at Arizona State University, she integrates postsocialist, decolonial, and ecofeminist perspectives to envision education as a catalyst for ecological justice, cultural renewal, and planetary sustainability.

Juan Francisco Salazar on “Anthropocenes Off-Earth”. Juan Francisco Salazar is an interdisciplinary researcher and filmmaker exploring social-ecological change. He is Professor of Communications, Media and Environment at Western Sydney University. His latest book is Routledge Handbook for Social Studies of Outer Space (2023) co-edited with Alice Gorman. His latest film is the speculative fiction Cosmographies (2025).

Contact the host of Book launch of “Southern Anthropocenes” edited by Casper Bruun Jensen