Science, Politics, and the Anthropocene Working Group

What was the Anthropocene?
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-99004-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Between 2009 and 2024, the Anthropocene Working Group, an interdisciplinary team of geologists, archaeologists, Earth systems scientists, historians of science, and one lawyer, sought to formalise the Anthropocene as a formal unit of the Geologic Time Scale. Science, Politics, and the Anthropocene Working Group: What was the Anthropocene? presents the only comprehensive, ethnographic and history of science study of the Anthropocene Working Group’s formalisation effort. Drawing on original archival research, this book provides a history of the formalisation procedure, as well as the practices of measurement and correlation, particular to the amendment of the Geologic Time Scale.

Through participant observation, this book explains how the Anthropocene Working Group those methods and practices to situate contemporary society within the context of 4.5 billion years of Earth history. Positioning contemporary debates concerning the Anthropocene within a historical appraisal of geoscience, What was the Anthropocene? offers a unique, multidisciplinary perspective on how scientific knowledge is shaped and legitimised under conditions of climate crisis. Science, Politics, and the Anthropocene Working Group: What was the Anthropocene? provides an invaluable resource for scholars of all levels studying geosciences, the history of science, social studies of science, and the Anthropocene.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Damianos, Alex

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter One: What is the Anthropocene?

Chapter Two: The Original Forensic Science

Chapter Three: An Evaluative Framework

Chapter Four: Biography of the GSSP

Chapter Five: The AWG Meeting of Mainz, September 2018

Chapter Six: The HKW and AWG – Exhibiting the GSSP

Chapter Seven: The final vote

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Damianos is lecturer at Kent Law School, University of Kent. He researches the historical significance of science and technology. He regularly publishes in leading journals across law, aesthetics, and sociology of science. He holds a PhD in Law from the London School of Economics & Political Science.