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Cultural Analysis in/of the Anthropocene
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Abstract Recalling George Marcus's influential writing "Ethnography In/Of the World System", this essay asks how cultural analysis needs to be conceptualized, practiced and infrastructured differently when it moves from a global to a planetary, late industrial frame. This contribution argues that "the Anthro... view more
Recalling George Marcus's influential writing "Ethnography In/Of the World System", this essay asks how cultural analysis needs to be conceptualized, practiced and infrastructured differently when it moves from a global to a planetary, late industrial frame. This contribution argues that "the Anthropocene" is usefully understood as a particular way of making environmental sense within late industrialism - what industrialism has become as it has cohered, aged, ossified, degraded and retrenched over time, in different ways in different settings. The essay calls for cultural analysis of the Anthropocene as a scientific concept, environmental dynamic, representational challenge and prompt to action in different settings. It also pleads for interdisciplinary collaboration (with cultural analysts in formative roles) and for investment in technical infrastructure to underpin the cultural analysis needed to go forward.... view less
Classification
Philosophy of Science, Theory of Science, Methodology, Ethics of the Social Sciences
Free Keywords
Anthropocene; Interdisciplinarity; Cultural Analysis; Late Industrialism
Document language
German
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 15-35
Journal
Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie (2021) 13
Issue topic
Welt. Wissen. Gestalten: 42. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (dgv) 2019
ISSN
2365-1016
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed