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来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.26,Issue9SI,P.1714-1727

语言

英文

关键字

Anthropocene; decolonizing; imaginary; reclaiming; climate change scholarship; GEOGRAPHY; ANTHROPO(S)CENE; POLITICS; SCIENCE; CLIMATE; FUTURE; CALL; LIFE

作者单位

[Kaika, Maria] Univ Amsterdam, Dept Human Geog Planning & Int Dev GPIO, POB 15629,REC C4-017,Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, NL-1001 NC Amsterdam, Netherlands. Kaika, M (reprint author), Univ Amsterdam, Dept Human Geog Planning & Int Dev GPIO, POB 15629,REC C4-017,Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, NL-1001 NC Amsterdam, Netherlands. E-Mail: m.kaika@uva.nl

摘要

Even before officially sanctioned as a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene conquers the imaginary and is reified as awareness-raising, inspiring, universalist, capitalist-technocratic, dangerous. As critical scholarship discerns in this name-nomination an opportunity to rethink the human/more-than-human/environmental nexus, debating the Anthropocene becomes in itself more policy/politically relevant than its actual confirmation as a new geological epoch. However, the Anthropocene debate remains remarkably disembodied, engaging rarely with emerging actors and practices across the world that drive precisely the socio-ecological transformations that critical scholars advocate. Correspondingly, most actors involved in these practices are indifferent to the Anthropocene debate. And here, I argue, lies the task of academic labour: to engage in what I call a scholarship of presence; a scholarship that adds empirical weight to our theoretical musings around the Anthropocene. To do this, we need to be prepared simultaneously to explore the world like a frog and see it like an eagle; to be present locally, splashing (frog-like) into the murky waters of empirics; and to zoom-out broaden the gaze (eagle-like) from localized struggles, make comparisons and develop broader conceptual contributions. Such a scholarship of presence can be instrumental in making the Anthropocene the quilting point for articulating geographically fragmented struggles into a new ethico-aesthetic paradigm.