A New Climate for Society
A New Climate for Society
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10.1177/0263276409361497
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2010-03
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S. Jasanoff
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本文认为，气候变化产生了不和谐的既定方式来理解人类在自然界中的地位，因此提供了独特的挑战和机会的解释性社会科学。科学评估，如政府间气候变化专门委员会的评估，帮助确定气候变化是一种全球现象，但在这一过程中，它们将知识与意义分离开来。气候事实产生于客观的观察，而意义则产生于内在的经验。因此，气候科学违背了常识，并在四个层面上破坏了现有的社会机构和道德承诺：社区，政治，空间和时间。本文探讨了当科学预测的气候变化的客观，非政治和普遍的想象与人类行为者与自然接触的主观，情境和规范想象发生冲突时所产生的紧张局势。它指出了当前的环境辩论，其中正在将气候的科学表述与社会对这些表述的反应重新结合起来。它建议解释性社会科学如何促进对人类气候困境的更复杂的理解。这一分析的一个重要目的是提供一个框架，在这个框架中，在一种似乎使团结和经验的重要先前类别过时的气氛中思考人类和社会。
This article argues that climate change produces discordances in established ways of understanding the human place in nature, and so offers unique challenges and opportunities for the interpretive social sciences. Scientific assessments such as those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change helped establish climate change as a global phenomenon, but in the process they detached knowledge from meaning. Climate facts arise from impersonal observation whereas meanings emerge from embedded experience. Climate science thus cuts against the grain of common sense and undermines existing social institutions and ethical commitments at four levels: communal, political, spatial and temporal. The article explores the tensions that arise when the impersonal, apolitical and universal imaginary of climate change projected by science comes into conflict with the subjective, situated and normative imaginations of human actors engaging with nature. It points to current environmental debates in which a reintegration of scientific representations of the climate with social responses to those representations is taking place. It suggests how the interpretive social sciences can foster a more complex understanding of humanity’s climate predicament. An important aim of this analysis is to offer a framework in which to think about the human and the social in a climate that seems to render obsolete important prior categories of solidarity and experience.