Science, Politics, and the Anthropocene Working Group

Between 2009 and 2024, the Anthropocene Working Group, 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 only comprehensive, ethnographic and history of science study of the Anthropocene Working Group’s formalisation effort. Drawing on original archiv