Roundtable How to Cite: Sykes, R et al 2017 Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable: Responding to Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Generation Anthropocene’. Open Library of Humanities, 3(1): 5, pp. 1–46, DOI: http://doi.org/ 10.16995/olh.153 Published: 22 February 2017 Peer Review: This article has been peer reviewed through the double-blind process of Open Library of Humanities, which is a journal published by the Open Library of Humanities. Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distri- bution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Open Access: Open Library of Humanities is a peer-reviewed open access journal. Digital Preservation: The Open Library of Humanities and all its journals are digitally preserved in the CLOCKSS scholarly archive service. Rachel Sykes et al, ‘Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable: Responding to Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Generation Anthropocene’’ (2017) 3(1): 5 Open Library of Humanities, DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.16995/olh.153 ROUNDTABLE Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable: Responding to Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Generation Anthropocene’ Rachel Sykes1, Arin Keeble2, Daniel Cordle2, Joanne Scott3, Diletta De Cristofaro4, Daniel King5, Andrew Rowcroft6 and Neelam Srivastava7 1 University of Birmingham, GB 2 Edinburgh Napier University, GB 3 University of Salford, GB 4 De Montfort University, Leicester, GB 5 University of Derby, GB 6 University of Lincoln, GB 7 Newcastle University, GB Corresponding author: Rachel Sykes (
[email protected]) In April 2016, The Guardian published ‘Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet forever’ by the celebrated academic and nature writer Robert Macfarlane.