TY - JOUR
T1 - Pluralizing Debates on the Anthropocene Requires Engaging with the Diversity of Existing Scholarship
AU - Pickering, J
AU - Patterson, J
AU - Biermann, F
AU - Burch, S
AU - Elliott, L
AU - Gupta, A
AU - Inoue, CYA
AU - Ishii, A
AU - Kalfagianni, A
AU - Meadowcroft, J
AU - Okereke, C
AU - Persson, A
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by American Association of Geographers.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1080/24694452.2022.2105296
DO - 10.1080/24694452.2022.2105296
M3 - Editorial
SN - 2469-4452
VL - 113
SP - e-i-evi
JO - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
JF - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
IS - 2
ER -