Anthropocene Working Group and the Global Debate Around a New Geological Epoch

Martin Bohle, an associated fellow of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (Erfurt, Germany), retired from the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research and Innovation in 2019. He graduated as a Physical Oceanographer (University Kiel, Germany) in 1980 and obtained a Docteur ès Sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (Switzerland). In cooperation with the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (Rome, Italy), he publishes on societal attributes of the Earth Sciences.Boris Holzer is Professor of General Sociology and Macrosociology at the University of Konstanz. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His current research focuses on political and economic sociology, social networks and world society. Recent book publications include From Globalization to World Society (ed. with F. Kastner and T. Werron, Routledge 2015), Schlüsselwerke der Netzwerkforschung (ed. with Ch. Stegbauer, Springer VS 2019) and Politische Soziologie (2nd ed., Nomos 2020). Leslie Sklair is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. His work has been translated into more than 10 languages. He is the President of the Global Studies Association (UK). He has published extensively on the Anthropocene, including his edited volume, The Anthropocene in Global Media: Neutralizing the Risk (Routledge, 2021), the first book to analyse media coverage of the Anthropocene. In 2016 the Czech Academy of Sciences awarded him the František Palacký Medal for his contribution to Historical Sciences.Fabienne Will is an environmental historian and historian of science. She is currently a PostDoc at the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Deutsches Museum Munich. She received her PhD in 2020 from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. Her current research focuses on the Anthropocene, the history of knowledge production, and wicked problems such as planetary health.

• Introduction: The AWG mission and context.- Timelines and Entanglements.- The AWG in the Scientific Debate about the Anthropocene.- The Anthropocene as a trans disciplinary Issue.- Outreach of the AWG in the Media: The Anthropo-scene, the Social Sciences, and the Creative Arts.- Conclusion: The Anthropocene Remade.