ESHS/HSS Annual Meeting

Science and Empire in the Anthropocene: Towards an Environmental Shift 1- Imperial roots of Plantationocene and Anthropocene

Session Submission Type: Organized Session

English Abstract

This symposium, sponsored by the Science and Empire Commission, aims to reinforce discussions on the complex intertwinements between Science, Empire, and Environment in order to assess the possibilities of an environmental shift for the Science and Empire. This first session is dedicated to presenting a critical analysis of the imperial roots of the Plantationocene and the Anthropocene, as well as alternative indigenous cosmologies. The three papers present examples from the Brazilian Amazon and Portugal, then grounding the discussions on the Plantationcene into the legacies of the Portuguese Empire.

Sub Unit

• Organized Session

Chair

• Daniel Gamito-Marques, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal

Individual Presentations

• The Amazon as an Anthropocene Hotspot: transnational frictions and encounters in tropical ecology during the Cold War - André Felipe Candido da SILVA, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ (Brazil); André Bailão, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ (Brazil)

• Plantations reconfigured: from empire’s monocrop to contemporary pop-up polytunnels - Cristiana Bastos, Universidade de Lisboa

• On compatibility with Amazonian perspectivism as an epistemological criterion - the case of Anne Conway and ecofeminism - Anastasia Guidi, ABC Federal University (Brazil)

Session Organizers

• Sabina Ferreira Alexandre Luz

• Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, King's College London