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Abstract
Are we living in the Anthropocene epoch? What would it mean to say that we are? The year of 2023 has seen fierce debates among scientists over these questions, with an official proposal for a new geological epoch being rejected by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) in March 2024.
Yet the Anthropocene concept continues to inspire new ways of understanding humanity’s impact on the planet across the arts, humanities and social sciences. The value of the concept itself thus goes beyond its rejected function as geological marker.
This Twine explores some of the ways in which the concepts can help us rethink the spatiality and the temporality of the current ecological crisis from the bottom up. The proposal voted down by the ICS took Crawford Lake in Canada as the marker of the Anthropocene epoch. But what if we took other places, objects, or ideas as starting points for thinking about the Anthropocene?
How might a global perspective on the Anthropocene reshape ideas of what counts as valuable and valid knowledge across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities? The essays collected for this Twine answer these questions, offering perspectives from the Caribbean and South America to the Indian subcontinent, and working with methods from literary criticism to ethnography. They investigate how perspectives on the Anthropocene and the value of the concept differ depending on where, when, and what we consider to be its beginnings.
This project was funded by a Knowledge Frontiers Symposia Follow-On Funding award from the British Academy. The building of the Twine was supported by The Plant at Maastricht University.
Yet the Anthropocene concept continues to inspire new ways of understanding humanity’s impact on the planet across the arts, humanities and social sciences. The value of the concept itself thus goes beyond its rejected function as geological marker.
This Twine explores some of the ways in which the concepts can help us rethink the spatiality and the temporality of the current ecological crisis from the bottom up. The proposal voted down by the ICS took Crawford Lake in Canada as the marker of the Anthropocene epoch. But what if we took other places, objects, or ideas as starting points for thinking about the Anthropocene?
How might a global perspective on the Anthropocene reshape ideas of what counts as valuable and valid knowledge across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities? The essays collected for this Twine answer these questions, offering perspectives from the Caribbean and South America to the Indian subcontinent, and working with methods from literary criticism to ethnography. They investigate how perspectives on the Anthropocene and the value of the concept differ depending on where, when, and what we consider to be its beginnings.
This project was funded by a Knowledge Frontiers Symposia Follow-On Funding award from the British Academy. The building of the Twine was supported by The Plant at Maastricht University.
| Original language | English |
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| Media of output | Online |
| Publication status | Published - 31 Mar 2025 |
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Grounding Value in the Anthropocene
Finch-Race, D. (Other), Merchant, P. (Other), Pesa, I. (Other), Schleper, S. (Other), Steeds, L. (Other), Thomas, N. (Other), Cunningham, A. (Other) & Rén, J. (Other), 2022Research output: Non-textual / digital / web - outputs › Web publication/site › Academic
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