A proposição historiográfica da Ciência do Sistema Terra: uma revisão das críticas à “metanarrativa do Antropoceno”

Walter Francisco Figueiredo Lowande

doi:10.15848/hh.v16i41.1941

Authors

Walter Francisco Figueiredo Lowande Universidade Federal de Alfenas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5137-1352

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15848/hh.v16i41.1941

Keywords:

Narratives, Scientific practices, Historiography

Abstract

Discussions about the Anthropocene produced by Earth System Science (ESS) and stratigraphy have resulted in texts that make use of data and models, but that also produce historical narratives through which an attempt is made to offer a new unified meaning for humanity. In this article I take these statements as “propositions” which have the potential to transform historiographical practice. The objective is to offer a more detailed picture of the contributions of these “anthropocenologists” in order to enable a better assessment of the possibilities of reception of these propositions by the historians’community. Therefore, this article aims to review some recent criticisms of the narratives produced by these
scientists. As a conclusion, I demonstrate that the literature produced by the ESS cannot be easily reduced to the idea of a “metanarrative”, due to the plurality of positions it encompasses, as well as I point to the need for a pluralization of the historiographical onto-epistemic perspectives so that it can contribute to the multiple ways of inhabiting and giving meaning to the experience in the post-Holocene.

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