The Politics of Earth Stewardship in the Uneven Anthropocene - Earth Stewardship: Linking Ecology and Ethics in Theory and Practice - page 136

Chapter 10
The Politics of Earth Stewardship
in the Uneven Anthropocene
Laura Ogden , Nik Heynen , Ulrich Oslender , Paige West , Karim-Aly Kassam ,
Paul Robbins , Francisca Massardo , and Ricardo Rozzi
Abstract The Anthropocene is not only an epoch of anthropogenic dominance of
the Earth's ecosystems, but also an epoch characterized by new forms of environ-
mental governance, institutions, and uneven development. Following the literature
in political ecology, we are calling these new forms of environmental governance,
“global assemblages.” A key argument from a political ecological perspective is that
socio-ecological changes historically disproportionately impact communities in the
Global South, and minority and low-income communities in the Global North.
While global assemblages are powerful mechanisms of socio-ecological change, we