Future
2016; Duke University Press; Volume: 8; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1215/22011919-3664342
ISSN2201-1919
AutoresCéline Granjou, Juan Francisco Salazar,
Tópico(s)American Environmental and Regional History
ResumoT he future has long been viewed in terms of modernity's human-centered categories of innovation, emancipation, progress, and civilization (which have historically been predominantly coded as white and male), while nature has been shoved to the realm of the ahistorical, understood as a fixed background for the development of society.These categories entail the subterfuge that the future is always "ours" to shape and build.They are deeply rooted in the transformation of the Christian doctrine of the Apocalypse during the early Renaissance, which carried the shift from a belief in humankind's future redemption by God to the secular ideology of progress that assumed that humans themselves actively contribute to the shaping of a better future. 1This ideology was embodied in Francis Bacon's view of scientific advancement, as in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's view of history as a teleological movement of human emancipation toward a more human future, a future in which humans would be freed from diseases, hunger, and other material restrictions.The emergence of the social sciences in the nineteenth century was also bound up with this constitution of a modern view of the future, no longer as fate and destiny but as the outcome of a movement of material and moral improvement triggered by humankind's creativity. 2 This was particularly the case for early anthropology, which of-1.Walker, "Economy of Nature." 2.
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