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July 16, 2024

Planetary Thinking [ ] Appalachia

Spring 2025 Special Issue of Critical Humanities on Planetary Thinking [ ] Appalachia

In the inaugural issue of the Critical Humanities journal, Puspa Damai notes that the dual focus of the journal is to “foster planetary thinking and…promote discourses of decolonization, democratization and social justice” among individuals and communities on both sides of the North/South divide.This call to “planetary thinking” echoes the focus of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. Focusing specifically on the cognitive shifts fostered by climate sciences ...