The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) aims at putting the research result from its Laboratory of Knowledge ‚The Anthropocene as a Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America‘ into dialogue with distinguished scholars from other world regions.

The contributions to the six-volume Handbook The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America think about the Anthropocene from a particular region of the Global South: The handbook offers a platform to discuss the multiple “anthropocenic” socio-environmental crises from a specifically Latin American point of view, without losing sight of their global and planetary dimensions. The objective is to systematize, from the perspective of Latin American social sciences and humanities, the multifaceted environmental crises that reached and crossed the planetary boundaries of the earth-systems and led to the new geological time of the Anthropocene. In doing so, it generates an empirical basis for the genealogy of the Anthropocene in so far under-researched global region with key regional and historical differentiations.

Key concerns to be addressed are: Is it useful to regionalize the Anthropocene from other regions as well? What about the planetary dimension and aspects? How is this field conceivable between the different disciplines?