Book contents
- The Anthropocene Crisis
- The Anthropocene Crisis
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Past and Future as Methodological Approaches
- Part III World System Studies for the Anthropocene
- Part IV Conclusions
- 8 Poly-Periodisation
- 9 Conclusions
- References
- Index
9 - Conclusions
Towards World System Science
from Part IV - Conclusions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2026
Book contents
- The Anthropocene Crisis
- The Anthropocene Crisis
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Past and Future as Methodological Approaches
- Part III World System Studies for the Anthropocene
- Part IV Conclusions
- 8 Poly-Periodisation
- 9 Conclusions
- References
- Index
Summary
The chapter sums up the book by addressing four issues. It first looks at the aims of WSS and the agenda it could pursue. Second, it explores how WSS should best relate to the existing as well as possibly emerging bridge-building exercises between the natural and social sciences. Third, it examines the case for the discipline of International Relations (IR) as a promising place from which to start generating WSS. Fourth, it reflects on the scale of change in the anthroposphere that is at stake in the Anthropocene crisis with which WSS would need to engage. While it might get started in IR, WSS will quickly venture beyond it. What is at stake is change not just within the parts, or singular systems, of modern global society, but in its cultural and political-economic foundations and evolutionary trajectories as a whole.
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- The Anthropocene CrisisA World System Science Approach, pp. 213 - 224Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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