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Pluralizing Debates on the Anthropocene Requires Engaging with the Diversity of Existing Scholarship
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- A recent article in this journal (Jackson 2021) validly emphasized that debates about the Anthropocene need to recognize a diverse range of perspectives, worldviews, and forms of knowledge. In doing so, however, the author mischaracterized scholarship on earth system governance as being antithetical to a critical and pluralistic stance on the Anthropocene. In this commentary we address key concerns about the article: selective and misleading quotations regarding the earth system governance literature’s diversity; unwarranted insinuations that juxtapose the implications of this literature with those of slavery and holocausts; and neglect of the breadth and diversity of scholarship on earth system governance. We underscore the need for scholarly debates on the Anthropocene to be informed by a balanced and rigorous assessment of existing scholarship, and for a constructive dialogue between global and locally situated ways of understanding the earth.
- Subjects :
- inclusion
earth system governance
Anthropocene
Taverne
pluralism
diversity
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.od.......101..f784a047e5e85b6237533c3e717f247a