Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene

Ryan Hediger,David Rodland,Ted Geier,Sinan Akilli

Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Country
United States
Published
9 December 2022
Pages
284
ISBN
9781684484584

Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene

Ryan Hediger,David Rodland,Ted Geier,Sinan Akilli

Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental humanities for its profound role in climate change and other crises. This collection of essays demonstrates the urgent need to rethink models and customs of labor and leisure in the Anthropocene. Recognizing the grave traumas and hazards plaguing planet Earth, contributors expose fundamental flaws in ideas of work and search for ways to redirect cultures toward more sustainable modes of life. These essays evaluate Anthropocene frames of interpretation, dramatize problems and potentials in regimes of labor, and explore leisure practices such as walking and storytelling as modes of recasting life, while a coda advocates reviving notions of work as craft.

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