The Future of Humanity: Revisioning the Human in the Posthuman

The Future of HumanityRevisioning the Human in the Posthuman Age\nAuthor(s): Pavlina Radia, Sarah Fiona Winters, Laurie Kruk\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield International\nISBN-13: 9781786609564, 978-1786609564\nSynopsis\nWhat is the future of humanity? What does it mean to be human in the posthuman age? What responsibility does humankind have towards others and their environments? How are the stories that humans tell themselves implicated in the very power asymmetries and eco-political challenges that they bemoan? Taking a cross-disciplinary approach to the posthuman age, the essays in this collection speak to the multifaceted geographies and counter-geographies of humanity, probing into the possible futures we face as planetary species. Some of these include: ecological issues generated by centuries of neglecting our environment(s); power asymmetries stemming from economic and cultural globalization; violenc.