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A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behindWhat will the world look like in ten thousand years-or ten million? What kinds of stories will be told about us?In Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, the award-winning author David Farrier explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future. Modern civilization has crea...

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A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behind

A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behind A Times Book of the Year . A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year

A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behind

A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behindWhat will the world look like in ten thousand years-or ten million? What kinds of stories will be told about us?In Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, the award-winning author David Farrier explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future. Modern civilization has crea...

David Farrier is senior lecturer in modern and contemporary literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Unsettled Narratives: The Pacific Writings of Stevenson, Ellis, Melville, and London and Postcolonial Asylum: Seeking Sanctuary before the Law.

David Farrier is senior lecturer in modern and contemporary literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Unsettled Narratives: The Pacific Writings of Stevenson, Ellis, Melville, and London and Postcolonial Asylum: Seeking Sanctuary before the Law.

In the nineteenth-century Pacific, the production of a text of encounter occurred in tandem with the production of a settled space, asserting settler presence through the control of the space and the context of the encounter. Indigenous resistance therefore took place through modes of representation that a unsettleda (TM) the text. This book considers the work of four Western visitors to the Pacifica "Robert Louis Stevenson, William Ellis, Her...

Deprived of political rights yet caught up in the law's vested interest in purposely portraying them as "other" to its citizens, individuals seeking asylum often experience a relationship of "inclusive exclusion" with their host nation. Concentrating on legislation, ethics, and political identity in Britain, Australasia, and the European Union, David Farrier engages in this book with asylum as an emerging postcolonial field through readings of...

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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.