Pluralizing Debates on the Anthropocene Requires Engaging with the Diversity of Existing Scholarship

Jonathan Pickering; James Patterson; Frank Biermann; Sarah Burch; Aarti Gupta; Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue; Atsushi Ishii; Agni Kalfagianni; James  Meadowcroft; Chukwumerije  Okereke; Åsa  Persson

doi:10.1080/24694452.2022.2105296

Pluralizing Debates on the Anthropocene Requires Engaging with the Diversity of Existing Scholarship

Jonathan Pickering, James Patterson, Frank Biermann, Sarah Burch, Aarti Gupta, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue, Atsushi Ishii, Agni Kalfagianni, James Meadowcroft, Chukwumerije Okereke, Åsa Persson

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e-i-e-vi
Number of pages	6
Journal	Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Volume	113
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2105296
Publication status	Published - Feb 2023

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Keywords

Anthropocene
diversity
earth system governance
inclusion
pluralism

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Pickering, J., Patterson, J., Biermann, F., Burch, S., Gupta, A., Inoue, C. Y. A., Ishii, A., Kalfagianni, A., Meadowcroft, J., Okereke, C., & Persson, Å. (2023). Pluralizing Debates on the Anthropocene Requires Engaging with the Diversity of Existing Scholarship. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(2), e-i-e-vi . https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2105296

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