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tallonrk1's review against another edition
4.0
This is some wonderful work thinking through the Anthropocene and how the history of race, both black and indigenous, are inextricable from our current environmental issues-- in fact, Yusoff shows that the exploitation of black and brown bodies and lands is the foundation of climate change.
B+
B+
jskstarr's review
3.0
Extremely dense but worth trying anyway
This book posed some fascinating concepts and new ideas. I wish I'd been able to focus more on them but the text was so dense and overly verbose that I struggled to get from one end of a sentence to the other while retaining the information at the beginning. And I'm saying that as a humanities academic. There were a lot of places where the word choices made the information inaccessible to the reader, which marred the book a lot for me.
This book posed some fascinating concepts and new ideas. I wish I'd been able to focus more on them but the text was so dense and overly verbose that I struggled to get from one end of a sentence to the other while retaining the information at the beginning. And I'm saying that as a humanities academic. There were a lot of places where the word choices made the information inaccessible to the reader, which marred the book a lot for me.
adriannagracem's review against another edition
5.0
honestly changed the trajectory of my academic research like this book is sO good
cassreading's review
challenging
informative
reflective
5.0
Excellent addition to thinking on the Anthropocene! Totally made me rethink a lot of the ecological poetry I've read. Like others say, the language is dense, but it doesn't seem intentionally obfuscating, and, in fact, I think she makes the links between all of her points very clear.
paigeb's review
4.0
This book was sooo interesting, but it makes me really sad when important books are written in a way that is really inaccessible to non-academic audiences!!