Anthropocene Time

Bibliographic Data

ID4495570
AuthorsDipesh Chakrabarty (0000-0003-0637-644X, University of Chicago, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume57
Issue1
Pages5-32
Publication date2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory and Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/hith.12044
OpenAlexW4244246458
LanguageEN
Citations received151

Beginning with the question of how a sense of geological time remains strangely withdrawn in contemporary discussions of the Anthropocene in the human sciences and yields place to the more human-centered time of world history, this article proceeds to discuss the differences between human-historical time and the time of geology as they relate to the concept of the Anthropocene. The article discusses the difficulty of developing a mode of thinking about the present that would attempt to hold together these two rather different senses of time and ends with a ground-clearing exercise that might enable the development of such thought

Anthropocene · Clearing · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philosophy

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