»Writing History in the Anthropocene« – das aktuelle Themenheft der Zeitschrift »Geschichte und Gesellschaft« (4/2020) herausgegeben von Andrea Westermann und Sabine Höhler ist erschienen.
Abstract
Since 2000, earth scientists from various disciplines have invited their colleagues, other scientists and humanists, politicians, NGOs, as well as the public at large, to consider consigning the contemporary geological epoch of the Holocene to the past, by superimposing a new time interval, the Anthropocene. Anthropocene geologists claim that we are witnessing the turn of a new page in geohistory because past and present societal actions in the aggregate have become a powerful force, shaping and changing the earth system and thus earth history at its planetary or terrestrial scales of space and time – equal, for instance, to the climate-driving forces already at work. By accepting this claim, we simultaneously re-open the pages of history and start to reassess and rewrite the pasts of various societies or actors because geological and historical dimensions have become interdependent. How have historians, by adding their own repertoire of approaches and tools, engaged with these issues?
Inhalt
- Andrea Westermann and Sabine Höhler: Writing History in the Anthropocene. Scaling, Accountability, and Accumulation. (Open Access)
- Milo Probst: Mit Klassenkämpfen ins Anthropozän. Naturverhältnisse im französischsprachigen Anarchismus, circa 1870 – 1914.
- Andrea Westermann: Enrichment and Dilution in the Atacama Mining Desert. Writing History from an Earth-Centered Perspective.
- Matthew H. Birkhold: Consuming Icebergs in the Anthropocene.
- Tatiana Kasperski and Anna Storm: Eternal Care. Nuclear Waste as Toxic Legacy and Future Fantasy. (Open Access)
- Sabine Höhler: Earth, a Technogarden. Planting for the Planet in Sweden’s First Phytotron, 1950 – 1970. (Open Access)
- Erik Isberg: Multiple Temporalities in a New Geological Age. Revisiting Reinhart Koselleck’s Zeitschichten. (Open Access)
- David Kuchenbuch: Histories in and of the Anthropocene. Commentary.
- Wissenschaftliche Nachrichten
Andreas Eckert: Innere Mission. Dietmar Rothermund (1933– 2020) und die Geschichte der Weltregionen in Deutschland
