Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2022

Environmental History and Policy: Mapping epistemic communities

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The environmental crisis and the increasing number of ecological disasters are changing the research agenda of many epistemic communities. As the environment becomes a focus of interest for communities that were previously unconcerned with this issue, researchers who have been interested in it for a long time are led to question the link to decision and action. We sought to map the research communities that articulate the notions of environmental history and policy, to capture the different ways in which history is used to think about policy issues in environmental matters. We conducted a systematic literature review of works in English articulating environmental history, public history and policy, studying them both from the point of view of their common references and as well as the authors' positioning fields. Digital network analysis tools allowed us to visualize the citation networks to identify the different epistemic communities as well as the authors ensuring the link between them. On this basis, the works structuring the different fields were identified and read, trying to retrace the chronology of the relations between these fields. This literature review reveals the existence of several very distinct epistemic communities, even if they may share the work of reference thinkers (Foucault, Scott, Latour…). Links between these communities exist, around authors who play the role of interface, but they nevertheless seem to constitute fields that are not very intertwined. For example, the dialogue between environmental history and public history, two of the epistemic communities identified, was initiated during dedicated conferences in 2004 and 2014. These attempts at rapprochement do not, however, seem to have succeeded in establishing a continuous and sustained dialogue, with divergences around the notion of advocacy. Two other epistemic communities mobilize history and question public policies while having placed ecology at the heart of their reflection: political ecology and socio-ecological systems.

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hal-03813226 , version 1 (13-10-2022)

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Déborah Abhervé. Environmental History and Policy: Mapping epistemic communities. American Society for Environmental History Conference, Mar 2022, Eugene, Oregon, United States. ⟨hal-03813226⟩
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