Roundtable studying the Anthropocene in Central Asia: the challenge of sources and scales in human–environment relations

Féaux de la Croix J. Arzhantseva I. Dağyeli J. Dubuisson E.-M. Härke H. Penati B. Ueda A. Wooden A.
2022 Routledge

Central Asian Survey
2022 #41 Issue 1 180 - 203 pp.

The emerging and vibrant field of environmental humanities to date has not received considerable attention in Central Asia. In light of the Anthropocene crises, there is a real urgency for maturing this field and investigating the methodological and epistemological challenges that environmental topics demand, often working across disciplinary habits and time scales. This roundtable brings together Central Asianists from a range of backgrounds to discuss the sources and scales of their investigation, their challenges and potential. The contributors discuss how particular kinds of sources such as climate models, archival manuscripts, ethnographic fieldwork and media analyses have been used to understand environmental changes in the region. In what ways do the traditions of scholars’ disciplinary training guide the scale of analysis? Looking toward the future of environmental humanities in Central Asia, this roundtable suggests paths for developing this vital field of enquiry.

Anthropocene , Environment , environmental humanities , interdisciplinarity , scale , sources

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Social and Cultural Anthropology, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Languages, Linguistics, and Literatures, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Centre for Classical and Oriental Archaeology, Higher School of Economics University, Moscow, Russian Federation
History, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Institute of Developing Economies, Chiba, Japan
Environmental Studies, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, United States

Social and Cultural Anthropology
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology
Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies
Languages
Centre for Classical and Oriental Archaeology
History
Institute of Developing Economies
Environmental Studies

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