Human Niche Construction and Niche Heritage- Building Blocks for Synthesis

This chapter brings together what the culturalization of the planet and the geologization of culture mean for societies and for us as individuals. In view of the diverse debates, only building blocks can be provided here, which will not be enough to produce a conceptually inhabitable building. Hence, the controversial discussion about scales is combined with concepts of world citizenship in the Anthropocene. I have then formulated the guiding question as a cosmopolitan-informed question of world ecology: How can intensively networked cultures peacefully coexist on a planet that is heavily influenced by humans but limited in size, without all having to become indistinguishable? Using Southeast Asia as an example, I finally show what a “provincialization” and a localization of the Anthropocene could look like on site.