Perrin Selcer,
            <i>The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth</i>

Schleper, Simone

doi:10.3197/ge.2021.140209

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“…Rather than only providing accounts of the most 'central', powerful or significant moments of analytical co-production and relevant actorsas is often the case in existing studiesa relational and systemic ecologies perspective simultaneously seeks out 'decentred' co-productions on the margins or peripheries (Holt et al 2019;Medina 2013) or those associated with the mundane and every day (Michael 2016). This may involve moving away from co-production associated with a central institutional site like the IPCC (Miller 2004) or the spaces of specialised UN agencies (Selcer 2018), and instead attending to more local or particular collectives, both historical and contemporary, to examine their role in defining, understanding and governing things like climate: from nineteenth-century life assurance firms (Kneale and Randalls 2020) to colonised peoples (Whyte 2018); from 'amateur' scientists (Endfield and Morris 2012) to local government planners (Knox 2020) and smallholder farmers (Pauline and Grab 2018).…”

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Ecologies of co-production in the Anthropocene

Honeybun-Arnolda,

Mahony,

Chilvers

2024

Progress in Environmental Geography

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The urgency, uncertainty and unevenness of the Anthropocene has foregrounded the spatial and temporal multiplicity of co-production between science and society. In this article, we draw together work in geography, science and technology studies and cognate disciplines concerned with ‘co-producing’ knowledge for environmental governance, and with the ‘co-production’ of science and politics. Yet these existing studies and approaches have tended to focus on discrete moments of co-production within bounded time-spaces. Building on work associated with ecologies of participation and geographies of science, we introduce the notion of ‘ecologies of co-production’ as a way to more faithfully attend to multiple co-existing co-productions and the interrelations between them. We define this as diverse interrelating practices and spaces of co-production which intermingle and are co-produced with(in) wider systems and political cultures in which they are situated. We set out how this opens up new ways of thinking about and attending to the spaces and interrelations, diversities and exclusions, histories and constitutions, and responsibilities and affects of co-productions between science and society in the Anthropocene. We suggest that this approach can make a difference in how we do co-production, how we analyse co-production and how we live, act and figure in an Anthropocene world.

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Section: Diversities and Exclusionsmentioning

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Ecologies of co-production in the Anthropocene

Honeybun-Arnolda,

Mahony,

Chilvers

2024

Progress in Environmental Geography

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“…Meanwhile, scholars have traced post‐war ideologies of improvement and assertions that habitability might be mediated by technology. Here Perrin Selcer examines the “metaphor of Spaceship Earth” and uneven attempts by international organizations to delineate the “global environment” and manage it by technocratic means (Selcer, 2018). Scholars have also critically examined the so‐called “Green revolution” and the modification of seeds and agricultural technologies with hopes of breaking the Malthusian shackles and exponentially increasing global wheat (and rice) production (Baranski, 2022), ultimately emphasizing an ongoing need to be wary about narratives of scientific triumphalism around indefinitely expanding the limits of habitability.…”

Section: Demography Ecology and The Limits Of Habitable Spacementioning

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Histories of habitability from the oikoumene to the Anthropocene

Fleetwood¹

2023

WIREs Climate Change

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The IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report warns in stark terms that many long inhabited parts of the world are now on course to become uninhabitable. As astronomers continue to search the universe for new habitable planets, it is equally essential to historicize the consequences of changing habitability on this one. This article reviews how scholars have engaged with the widely noted but rarely theorized categories of “habitability” and “uninhabitability.” While tracing longer imperial genealogies, the primary focus is on notions of habitability in relation to European global empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and their postcolonial legacies. The article traces three key themes in the literature: that habitability was inherently limited, and beyond those limits allegedly lay uninhabitability; that habitability was differential and that certain places were habitable for some groups but not others (but that this might be changed by technological interventions); and finally, that the limits of habitability were not static, but could change for both better and worse. Here the links between colonialism and ideas of acclimatization, terraforming, “improvement,” deliberate uninhabitability, and an “Anthropocene” have all been central to the literature. These have often been closely associated with insidious forms of environmental determinism, which are taking on new forms in an age of crisis (especially in narratives around climate and migration). By drawing together previously disparate literatures, this article ultimately calls on scholars to embrace habitability studies more widely, and to expand on their interdisciplinary potential for communicating the societal consequences of a changing climate.This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > Ideas and Knowledge

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“…International organisations played an important role in discussions and comparisons of national experiences. These international institutions, mainly the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (for its members countries), proposed and provided models of policymaking in every continent (Elzinga, 1996;Henriques & Larédo, 2013;Latour & Woolgar, 1979;Petitjean, 2009;Selcer, 2018;Sewell, 1975), International scientific collaborations were growing everywhere, instituting the practice of calls for projects, seen not only as incentive policy instruments that permit guidance for the scientific agendas, but also as opportunities for additional research beyond the limits of national borders (Alom Bartrolí et al, this volume). These were practices that also permitted to extend the scope of "big science" projects, adding multinational partners.…”

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Routledge Handbook of Academic Knowledge Circulation

Keim,

Rodriguez Medina,

Arvanitis

et al. 2023

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HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés.

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Perrin Selcer, The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth

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Ecologies of co-production in the Anthropocene

Ecologies of co-production in the Anthropocene

Histories of habitability from the oikoumene to the Anthropocene

Routledge Handbook of Academic Knowledge Circulation

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