Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene.
Judeo-Christian eschatological time has re-emerged in scholarly and popular discussions of climate apocalypse in the last decades, also in attempts to mobilise action against climate change. I argue that speaking about climate change as the eschatological endpoint in linear time undermines the call...
| Publicado en: | Political Studies Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 51 - 71 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Feb2026
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