Journal
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
Volume 32, Issue -, Pages 211-218Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.03.012
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Anthropocence; Politics; Global environmental change; Social science; Critical interpretation; Ontology
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- research project 'Novel Forms of Governance by Nested Networks (NESNET)' by the German Ministry for Education and Research, Funding Initiative Research on the Relationship between Science, Politics and Society [KZ 01UZ1003]
- Linkoping University
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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. (c) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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