Article ID: CBB349283884

Introduction: Rethinking History of Science in the Anthropocene (2022)

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The process of thinking through the implications of the Anthropocene for the humanities, including history, is well under way. The time has come for historians of science to take stock of the situation in Anthropocene scholarship and collaboratively reflect on how we want to situate our field toward that scholarship. It will involve taking up such fundamental questions as why and how, as well as for and with whom, we do the history of science. This introduction to the Focus section “History of Science in the Anthropocene” presents the Anthropocene as both a challenge and an opportunity, opening up new avenues of research and widening spatial, temporal, and topical boundaries while giving rise to urgent problems, dilemmas, and choices that will need to be faced. The aim of this Focus section is to put these challenges and opportunities on the history of science’s agenda and, thereby, to start a discipline-wide dialogue.

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Authors & Contributors
Thomas, Julia Adeney
Renn, Jürgen
Iva Peša
Simon, Zoltán Boldizsár
Weldon, Stephen P.
Weininger, Stephen J.
Concepts
History of science, as a discipline
Historiography
Epistemology
Anthropocene
Historians of science, modern
Historical method
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Enlightenment
20th century
Places
Congo
Nigeria
United States
South Africa
France
Belgium
Institutions
Science History Institute (SHI)
American Chemical Society
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