The History of the Anthropocene: Meanings and Research Trajectories

IF 0.3 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environment Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.3197/ge.2022.150307

E. Luciano

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Abstract

Over the past two decades, the Anthropocene has become a concept of multidisciplinary interest and research. A topic of particular interest has been the history of the Anthropocene. The underlying ambiguity of this topic opens it up to four different meanings, each engendering a discrete research trajectory within the emerging field of Anthropocene studies. The present contribution maps these four research trajectories stemming respectively from geology, Earth system science, environmental history and conceptual history. It also explores ways in which these histories overlap, complement or conflict with one another in understanding the global phenomenon that the Anthropocene represents. As the concept of the Anthropocene grows into a social, political and even educational vehicle for environmental communication, organising knowledge in and of the Anthropocene is an urgent task. This task requires going outside disciplinary comfort zones and engaging with neighbouring as well as distant disciplines with curiosity so as to disclose the full potential of the Anthropocene concept.

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人类世的历史:意义与研究轨迹

在过去的二十年里，人类世已经成为一个多学科兴趣和研究的概念。人们特别感兴趣的一个话题是人类世的历史。这个主题的潜在模糊性使它有四种不同的含义，每一种含义都在新兴的人类世研究领域中产生了一个离散的研究轨迹。本文从地质学、地球系统科学、环境史和概念史四个方面描绘了这四个研究轨迹。它还探讨了这些历史在理解人类世所代表的全球现象时相互重叠、补充或冲突的方式。随着人类世的概念逐渐成为社会、政治甚至教育环境交流的工具，组织关于人类世的知识是一项紧迫的任务。这项任务需要走出学科的舒适区，带着好奇心与邻近和遥远的学科接触，从而揭示人类世概念的全部潜力。

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Global Environment ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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0.50

自引率

25.00%

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期刊介绍： The half-yearly journal Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences acts as a forum and echo chamber for ongoing studies on the environment and world history, with special focus on modern and contemporary topics. Our intent is to gather and stimulate scholarship that, despite a diversity of approaches and themes, shares an environmental perspective on world history in its various facets, including economic development, social relations, production government, and international relations. One of the journal’s main commitments is to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to facilitate a common language and a common perspective in the study of history. This commitment is fulfilled by way of peer-reviewed research articles and also by interviews and other special features. Global Environment strives to transcend the western-centric and ‘developist’ bias that has dominated international environmental historiography so far and to favour the emergence of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It seeks to replace the notion of ‘hierarchy’ with those of ‘relationship’ and ‘exchange’ – between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas – in studying the construction or destruction of environments and ecosystems.