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RESEARCH ARTICLES

Two cheers for collapse? On the uses and abuses of the societal collapse thesis for imagining Anthropocene futures

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Pages 969-987 | Received 29 Mar 2022, Accepted 28 Dec 2022, Published online: 16 Jan 2023

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