A systematic and interdisciplinary approach to struggles of different Latin American societies with climatic extremes over the long term, from colonial contact to the Great Acceleration, highlighting the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America.

Societies have culturally framed and interacted with historical climate variability or anthropogenic climate change and climatic extremes, thereby becoming more or less vulnerable to the impacts of these events. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on climate change and its socio-climatic and socio-environmental entanglements in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene. The contributions enrich contemporary debates surrounding the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America with critical perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities.

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Eleonora Rohland ist Professorin für Verflechtungsgeschichte der Amerikas in der Vormoderne an der Universität Bielefeld und Direktorin des dortigen Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS). Ihre Forschung verbindet die Umwelt- und Klimageschichte mit der interamerikanischen Verflechtungsgeschichte. Sie ist Teilprojektleiterin im Bielefelder SFB 1288 »Praktiken des Vergleichens: Die Welt ordnen und verändern« sowie Co-Koordinatorin der Forschungsgruppe »Coping with Environmental Crises« am Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) in Guadalajara (Mexiko).