{"product_id":"9783031851773","title":"The Anthropocene Working Group and the Global Debate Around a New Geological Epoch","description":"\u003ch3\u003eEmerging Globalities and Civilizational Perspectives\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eThe Anthropocene Working Group and the Global Debate Around a New Geological Epoch\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMartin Bohle | Boris Holzer | Leslie Sklair | Fabienne Will\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Sociology \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003eThis book examines the role of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) in public and scholarly discussions of the meaning of the Anthropocene proposal. The status of the Anthropocene, both as a geoscientific concept and as a cultural concept becoming increasingly familiar in the public sphere, has been highly controversial. While geoscientists focus on possible geological markers and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eperiodisation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003e, the social sciences, environmental humanities, and creative arts have taken up the Anthropocene as a cultural concept to make sense of the planetary environmental crisis and contemporary society. This book documents intra-, inter-, and transdisciplinary debates, particularly, although not limited to, how different scholarly disciplines have responded to the Anthropocene proposal. The authors analyse how the AWG has become the focal point of a debate that straddles the boundaries between academic disciplines and public perceptions of science. The AWG thus serves as a case of the globalisation of science in terms of the global interconnectedness of scientific disciplines and the cultural significance of the Anthropocene proposal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003eMartin Bohle, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003ean associated fellow of the Max Weber Centre \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003efor Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (Erfurt, Germany), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003eretired from the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research and Innovation in 2019. He \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003egraduated as a Physical Oceanographer (University Kiel, Germany) in 1980 and obtained a Docteur ès Sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (Switzerland)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e. In\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e cooperation with the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (Rome, Italy), he publishes on societal attributes of the Earth Sciences.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"SV\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: SV;\"\u003eBoris Holzer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"SV\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: SV;\"\u003e is Professor of General Sociology and Macrosociology at the University of Konstanz. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eHe received his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His current research focuses on political and economic sociology, social networks and world society. Recent book publications include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eFrom Globalization to World Society \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e(ed. with F. Kastner and T. Werron, Routledge 2015), \u003cem style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eSchlüsselwerke der Netzwerkforschung \u003c\/em\u003e(ed. with Ch. Stegbauer, Springer VS 2019) and \u003cem style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003ePolitische Soziologie \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"SV\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: SV;\"\u003e(2nd ed., Nomos 2020)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003eLeslie Sklair\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003e is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. His work has been translated into more than 10 languages. He is the President of the Global Studies Association (UK). He has published extensively on the Anthropocene, including his edited volume, \u003cem\u003eThe Anthropocene in Global Media: Neutralizing the Risk \u003c\/em\u003e(Routledge, 2021), the first book to analyse media coverage of the Anthropocene. In 2016 the Czech Academy of Sciences awarded him the František Palacký Medal for his contribution to Historical Sciences.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003eFabienne Will\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003e is an environmental historian and historian of science. She is currently a PostDoc at the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Deutsches Museum Munich. She received her PhD in 2020 from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. Her current research focuses on the Anthropocene, the history of knowledge production, and wicked problems such as planetary health.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e04 March 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783031851773\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e201\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50805195014284,"sku":"9783031851773","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031851773.jpg?v=1781790303","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783031851773","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}