Journal article
Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene: A Historian Witnesses Climate Change on the Korean Peninsula
Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.), v 149(4), pp 192-206
01 Oct 2020
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Abstract
Despite their seeming reluctance to engage in the politics of the now, historians have a crucial role to play as witnesses to climate change and its attendant social injustices. Climate change is a product of industrialization, but its effects are known in different geographical and temporal scales through the compilation and analysis of historical narratives. This essay explores modes of thinking about disasters and temporality, the Anthropocene, and the social production of risk - set against a case study of the Korean DMZ as a site for historical witnessing. Historical methods are crucial if we are to investigate deeply the social processes that have produced climate change. A "slow disaster in the Anthropocene" approach might show the way forward.
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- Title
- Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene: A Historian Witnesses Climate Change on the Korean Peninsula
- Creators
- Scott Gabriel Knowles - University of Pennsylvania
- Publication Details
- Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.), v 149(4), pp 192-206
- Publisher
- Mit Press
- Number of pages
- 15
- Grant note
- Drexel University Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- History
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000571793800015
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85091532616
- Other Identifier
- 991019167725704721
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- Humanities, Multidisciplinary
- Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary