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One aspect of the Anthropocene, the “human-dominated geologic epoch,” that has received less attention is the estrangements it produces among the people living in its space and time. Wet-season tides began to extend to unusually high distances along the Murik coast in late 2007. They knocked down coconut palms, eroded beaches and sometimes broke through the narrow seashore, raising the prospect of resettlement. Returning to Bakhtin’s concept of chronotope, the chapter focuses on modern and Anthropocene-based chronotopes as well as the chronotope of archaic Murik masculinity and the chronotope of doubt found in local-level debates about the meanings of rising sea levels. As a whole, the Anthropocene is a new context of the dual alienation of Murik men.
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Lipset, D. (2017). In the Anthropocene. In: Yabar. Culture, Mind, and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51076-7_7
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