In the age of climate change, human life’s pliability is also re‐shaping anthropological debates. For debates centring on the urban domain, questions revolve around flexibility, adaptability and resilience, while in work drawing on the Anthropocene similar ideas of human beings as subsumable to Gaia are emerging. This article reflects on how these perspectives interweave and imply a paradoxical human figure. On the one hand, they convey a being that simultaneously infuses, consumes and transmogrifies the world. Conversely, the human figure is forged by theoretical and analytical orientations that prescribe that one should abandon such a human‐centric reading of the world. The latter aspect is particularly evident in so‐called ‘resilience governance’ discourses. These discourses presuppose a form of becoming less through reinventing humanity and human life as more adaptable to post‐future horizons of always already collapsed ecologies. Critically tracing this paradox, this article probes the urban Anthropocene and its lesser humans as desirable under the aegis of ‘resilience governance’ in Mozambique, crucially also mapping and analysing the involvement of utopic registers in defiance of such developments.

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小人类？莫桑比克马普托城市重组的乌托邦式登记册

在气候变化时代，人类生活的柔韧性也在重塑人类学辩论。对于围绕城市领域的辩论，问题围绕灵活性，适应性和适应性展开，而在人类世世代代的工作中，出现了类似盖亚人的人类观念。本文反思了这些观点如何交织在一起，并暗示了一个自相矛盾的人类形象。一方面，他们传达了一种同时注入，消费和迁移世界的生命。相反，人类的形象是通过理论和分析的方向伪造的，这些方向规定了人们应该放弃这种以人为中心的世界观。在所谓的“弹性治理”论述中，后一个方面尤其明显。这些论述的前提是，通过重塑人类和人类生活而变得越来越少，从而更适应未来已经崩溃的生态环境。批判性地追溯了这一悖论，本文在莫桑比克“复原力治理”的倡导下，对城市人类及其下属人类进行了调查，并对其进行了制图和分析，以反对这种发展。