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Environmental Humanities· 2026Q1

The Emerging Political Actors in the Anthropocene: Cosmopolitics of the Earthbounds in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island

Kawshik Ray

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This paper proposes an extrapolated version of Bruno Latour's 'earthbounds' as new political actors in the Anthropocene, defined by planetary boundaries and representing a concerned, debating public moving towards a democracy of human and nonhuman agents.

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