1st Edition
Science, Politics, and the Anthropocene Working Group What was the Anthropocene?
By Alexander Damianos
Copyright 2026
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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Between 2009 and 2024, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), an interdisciplinary team of geologists, archaeologists, Earth systems scientists, historians of science, and one lawyer, sought to formalise the Anthropocene as a formal unit of the Geologic Time Scale. Science, Politics, and the Anthropocene Working Group: What Was the Anthropocene? presents the first comprehensive, ethnographic and... Read more
Introduction
1. What Was the Anthropocene?
2. The Original Forensic Science
3. An Evaluative Framework
4. Biography of the GSSP
5. The AWG Meeting of Mainz, September 2018
6. Exhibiting the Anthropocene
Biography
Alexander Damianos is lecturer at Kent Law School, University of Kent. He researches the historical significance of science and technology. He regularly publishes in leading journals across law, aesthetics, and sociology of science. He holds a PhD in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
