기후위기 담론에서 인문학의 위상과 인문정책 방안

Abstract

The humanities have been one of the most marginalized disciplines in climate crisis discourse. The humanities have often been excluded from the policy process, including international agreements, planning, and implementation. The climate change field has promoted interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary studies, but they mostly involved social science, natural science, and engineering; the humanities were generally not considered. Neither has humanities research been well-represented for its essential, unique role in climate change discourse; therefore, expansion of academic activities and participation in discussion of the humanities are necessary. In this regard, the purpose of this essay is twofold. First, it scrutinizes the weakness of the current status of the humanities in climate change discourse. Second, it proposes ways to promote participation of the humanities. In particular, it first proposes establishment of a new interdisciplinary field called