Stratigraphy for the Renaissance: Questions of expertise for 'the environment' and 'the Anthropocene'
dc.contributor.author | Warde, Paul | |
dc.contributor.author | Robin, Libby | |
dc.contributor.author | Sorlin, Sverker | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-21T05:42:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-11-23T11:10:51Z | |
dc.description.abstract | This 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.mimetype | application/pdf | en_AU |
dc.identifier.issn | 2053-0196 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/248270 | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | en_AU |
dc.publisher | Sage Journals | en_AU |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2017 | en_AU |
dc.source | The Anthropocene Review | en_AU |
dc.subject | Anthropocene | en_AU |
dc.subject | boundaries | en_AU |
dc.subject | environment | en_AU |
dc.subject | environmental sciences | en_AU |
dc.subject | expertise | en_AU |
dc.subject | history | en_AU |
dc.subject | humanities | en_AU |
dc.subject | interdisciplinary knowledge | en_AU |
dc.subject | politics | en_AU |
dc.subject | stratigraphy | en_AU |
dc.title | Stratigraphy for the Renaissance: Questions of expertise for 'the environment' and 'the Anthropocene' | en_AU |
dc.type | Journal article | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 3 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 258 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 246 | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Warde, Paul, University of Cambridge | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Robin, Libby, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Sorlin, Sverker, KTH Royal Institute of Technology | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoremail | u9704089@anu.edu.au | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Robin, Libby, u9704089 | en_AU |
local.description.embargo | 2099-12-31 | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | en_AU |
local.identifier.absfor | 050205 - Environmental Management | en_AU |
local.identifier.absseo | 959900 - OTHER CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING | en_AU |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u4279067xPUB2259 | en_AU |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 4 | en_AU |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1177/2053019617738803 | en_AU |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-85038023947 | |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | u4279067 | en_AU |
local.publisher.url | http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav | en_AU |
local.type.status | Published Version | en_AU |
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