Between History and Earth System Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3337331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah R Coen (Yale University), Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (0000-0002-0336-9634, University of Chicago) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 407-416 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/719648 |
| OpenAlex | W4281291663 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 38 |
The Anthropocene is the signature concept of the new discipline of Earth System science (ESS). This essay argues that ESS is, first and foremost, a framework for interdisciplinary collaboration, and it considers the advantages and disadvantages to historians of adopting this framework. The authors conclude that the epistemological framework of ESS devalues the role of historical interpretation and evinces a self-defeating tendency toward Holocene nostalgia. A historically informed response to the present environmental crisis needs to attend to historical forces that remain invisible to ESS, such as the technological agency of nondominant actors
Agency (philosophy · Anthropocene · Earth system science · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Sociology · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · History · History of Science and Natural History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philosophy
Towards a political ecology of Earth System Modelling
Integration of the history of science in China's geography textbooks
Counter-modelling the Plantationocene
The great dispersal
Where is the Burgess Shale
Oceanic Pasts, Planetary Futures
"Predicting "Unprecedented change
From planetary scenarios to planetary sensing
Planetary environing
The Human Planet
Bursting the Limits of Time
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not
Misreading the African Landscape
Locally Based, Regionally Manifested, and Globally Relevant
The emergence and evolution of Earth System Science
Defining the Anthropocene
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Dispossessed Lives
Narratives of the past for Future Earth
Creating positive friction in the Anthropo(s)cenes
Ways of knowing climate
Climate change prediction
Re-thinking the present
Local Ecologies and Global Science
Re-situating fieldwork and re-narrating disciplinary history in global mega-geomorphology
Dear Science and Other Stories
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
Global environmental change II
Showing and hiding
Colonization of the Americas, 'Little Ice Age' climate, and bomb-produced carbon
Redefining historical climatology in the Anthropocene
Mining as the Working World of Alexander von Humboldt's Plant Geography and Vertical Cartography
Venus in Two Acts
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |