Science in the time of catastrophes: the case of the emergency of the Earth System Science

This article proposes a review of the historiography on the constitution of Earth System Science (CST), in order to extract from this procedure evidence about the specific conditions of production that led this community to incorporate prescriptive narrative elements into their texts. To this end, the relative autonomy of the CST is considered in the face of the neoliberal restructuring of global relations of production that impacted scientific pragmatics in general from the 1970s onwards, as well as the reaction of this community to scientific denialism. At the end, the article presents a reflection on how these discussions can be incorporated in historiography in a more comprehensive way.

Keywords:
Earth System Science; neoliberalism; denialism