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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Tomáš Mašek (13.12.2023)
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Tomáš Mašek (13.12.2023)
To describe human influences on the natural environment, scientists often use the term “anthropogenic”. The term was used even before the Anthropocene became a possible frame of our current epoch. Today, we use the “anthropogenic” as an indicator for the Anthropocene and when distinctions between “natural” and “human” impacts matter. For instance, C02 in the atmosphere is not always human-made (think of volcanic eruptions or natural wildfires) and demands scientists to integrate the possibility of either human or natural emissions. The distinction itself becomes a difficult task. Following the “anthropogenic” through its various conceptualisations in selected scientific disciplines, this seminar asks how the human, as one factor among others, poses “chronic empirical difficulties” (Syre 2012) in environmental research. Guiding questions of this seminar are: How is “the human” integrated and situated in natural and environmental science research? How do inter- and transdisciplinary studies deal with heterogeneous concepts of “the human”? What role can or must social sciences play in the study of the “anthropogenic”? |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Tomáš Mašek (13.12.2023)
Required reading: Moore, J. W. (2023): Our Capitalogenic World: Climate Crises, Class Politics, and the Civilizing Project. Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica, 11, 97-122. Hirsch, S. L., Ribes, D., & Inman, S. (2022): Sedimentary legacy and the disturbing recurrence of the human in long-term ecological research. Social Studies of Science, 52(4), 561-580. Optional reading: Markham, A.N. (2013): Undermining ‘data’: A critical examination of a core term in scientific inquiry. First Monday, 18 (10); URL: click here Required reading: Law, J. (2002): Objects. In: ibid., Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience, London and Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 12-37. Myers, G. (1990): Controversies about Scientific Texts (Chapter 1). In: ibid., Writing Biology: Texts in the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge. London and Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 3-40. Optional reading: Ginzburg, C. (1992): Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm. In: ibid., Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 96-125. Day 3 Required reading: Latour, B. (1993): Pasteur on Lactic Acid Yeast: A Partial Semiotic Analysis. Configurations, 1(1), pp. 129-146. Selected readings: Ballestero, A. & Winthereik, B.R. (eds., 2021): Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis. Durham, London: Duke University Press. URL: Day 4 Selected readings: Becker, H.S. (2007): Telling About Society. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Tomáš Mašek (15.12.2023)
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