Stratigraphy for the Renaissance: Questions of expertise for 'the environment' and 'the Anthropocene'

dc.contributor.authorWarde, Paul
dc.contributor.authorRobin, Libby
dc.contributor.authorSorlin, Sverker
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-21T05:42:35Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.date.updated2020-11-23T11:10:51Z
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the short history of scientific decision-making and expertise in deliberations about the validity of the term ‘Anthropocene’ by the International Commission on Stratigraphy. Contrary to fears that the Anthropocene debates constitute a politicisation of proper scientific practice, it argues that periodisation and categorisation in science (in stratigraphy, in this case) typically draws on expertise and information outside core disciplinary practice. When broad integrative concepts come into play, knowledge itself is reshaped. Disciplines and ‘non-scientific’ concerns develop new relations with each other. This is what happened in the Renaissance, when science itself emerged in its modern form. Here parallels are drawn between the emergence of the concept ‘the environment’ in the post-war era and the 21st-century struggles over the idea of ‘the Anthropocene’. The politics of science create uncertainties but equally nurture emergent possibilities for analysis that are not unlike the broad categories and periodisations – such as the Renaissance – in the humanities.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn2053-0196en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/248270
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherSage Journalsen_AU
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2017en_AU
dc.sourceThe Anthropocene Reviewen_AU
dc.subjectAnthropoceneen_AU
dc.subjectboundariesen_AU
dc.subjectenvironmenten_AU
dc.subjectenvironmental sciencesen_AU
dc.subjectexpertiseen_AU
dc.subjecthistoryen_AU
dc.subjecthumanitiesen_AU
dc.subjectinterdisciplinary knowledgeen_AU
dc.subjectpoliticsen_AU
dc.subjectstratigraphyen_AU
dc.titleStratigraphy for the Renaissance: Questions of expertise for 'the environment' and 'the Anthropocene'en_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage258en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage246en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationWarde, Paul, University of Cambridgeen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationRobin, Libby, College of Science, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationSorlin, Sverker, KTH Royal Institute of Technologyen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu9704089@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidRobin, Libby, u9704089en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor050205 - Environmental Managementen_AU
local.identifier.absseo959900 - OTHER CULTURAL UNDERSTANDINGen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4279067xPUB2259en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume4en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1177/2053019617738803en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85038023947
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4279067en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.naven_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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