Publication Date
Fall 2021
Abstract
Rethinking the work of academics in a time of pressing deadlines for climate action, this paper offers a series of new pragmatic strategies that academics can take up. It suggests a "climate pledge" where university teachers promise 5% or more of their teaching time to link the field of their traditional research to climate issues. It suggests that humanists, social scientists and data scientists need not only to "critique" the logic of extraction that propels our climate catastrophe, but also to "audit" individual institutions, writers, and politicians for their continuing engagement with climate or lack thereof.
Document Type
Article
Keywords
digital humanities, climate change, humanities, social sciences
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1086/716854
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Guldi, Jo, "From Critique to Audit: A Pragmatic Approach to the Climate Emergency" (2021). History Faculty Publications. 17.
https://scholar.smu.edu/hum_sci_history_research/17
