Interdisciplinarity Example: Environmental Studies
- The present historography of globalization and anthropocentric theories of climate change demand an interdisciplinary combination of geological and socio-economic history that focuses both on the planetary or earth factors and on the cultural changes that have jointly created humanity over hundred of thousands of years. (Braidotti, p.160, 2013).
- This forces us to bring together categories of thought which were until now kept apart only by disciplinary boundaries - between the earth sciences and literature and history, for instance - but also by the anthropocentric bias that has sustained the Humanities (Braidotti, p.161, 2013).
- We can embrace different disciplines for environmental studies: history, sociology, feminism, vitalist materialism (zoe-egalitarianism), the Eastern holistic approach to environment, etc.
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References
Braidotti, Rosi. The Posthuman. Polity Press, 2013.