Article ID: CBB837855745

Big is a Thing of the Past: Climate Change and Methodology in the History of Ideas (2016)

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The climate crisis has raised questions about the proper scale of historical analysis in the Anthropocene. After explaining how this methodological crisis differs from an earlier stand-off between proponents of microhistory and total history, this paper suggests a role for intellectual history in moving us beyond the current debate. What is needed is a history of “scaling”; that is, we need to historicize the process of mediating between different frameworks of measurement, even those that might at first appear incommensurable. Historical examples are explored in which such a process of commensuration has allowed for a pluralism of perceptions of space and time.

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Authors & Contributors
Cristina Baldacci
Li, Yali
Sarah E. Vaughn
Howe, Cymene
Iva Peša
Ellenblum, Ronnie
Concepts
Climate change
Anthropocene
Environmental history
Historical method
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Science and politics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
12th century
11th century
10th century
Places
Venice (Italy)
Mekong River
Guyana; British Guiana
Congo
Hong Kong
Great Lakes (North America)
Institutions
History of Science Society
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