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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.03.012
Titel (primär) Who speaks for the future of Earth? How critical social science can extend the conversation on the Anthropocene
Autor Lövbrand, E.; Beck, S.; Chilvers, J.; Forsyth, T.; Hedrén, J.; Hulme, M.; Lidskog, R.; Vasileiadou, E.
Quelle Global Environmental Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
Department UPOL
Band/Volume 32
Seite von 211
Seite bis 218
Sprache englisch
Keywords Anthropocence; Politics; Global environmental change; Social science; Critical interpretation; Ontology
UFZ Querschnittsthemen RU6;
Abstract This paper asks how the social sciences can engage with the idea of the Anthropocene in productive ways. In response to this question we outline an interpretative research agenda that allows critical engagement with the Anthropocene as a socially and culturally bounded object with many possible meanings and political trajectories. In order to facilitate the kind of political mobilization required to meet the complex environmental challenges of our times, we argue that the social sciences should refrain from adjusting to standardized research agendas and templates. A more urgent analytical challenge lies in exposing, challenging and extending the ontological assumptions that inform how we make sense of and respond to a rapidly changing environment. By cultivating environmental research that opens up multiple interpretations of the Anthropocene, the social sciences can help to extend the realm of the possible for environmental politics.
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Lövbrand, E., Beck, S., Chilvers, J., Forsyth, T., Hedrén, J., Hulme, M., Lidskog, R., Vasileiadou, E. (2015):
Who speaks for the future of Earth? How critical social science can extend the conversation on the Anthropocene
Glob. Environ. Change 32 , 211 - 218 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.03.012