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SUMMARY:CIDRAL Public Lecture: Paul Warde: 'The Invention of Sustainabili
 ty\, 1500-1870: The Early Modern History of a Modern Idea'
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DESCRIPTION:This event is part of CIDRAL's 2018 Autumn Programme.\n\nDr P
 aul Warde (Reader in Environmental History\, University of Cambridge) wi
 ll deliver a public lecture entitled 'The Invention of Sustainability\, 
 1500-1870: The Early Modern History of a Modern Idea'.\n\nThe idea of su
 stainability as a goal for society took hold in the 1970s in the English
  language. What does it mean to take a concept of our time and apply it 
 to earlier periods? This paper argues that first we must examine what is
  particular about a concept in its own time. Only then can we usefully e
 xamine how the thinking of the past may be interrogated through our curr
 ent concerns. We will examine how ‘sustainability’ debates across the ea
 rly modern period were shaped by the development of the state\, expectat
 ions of the future\, new techniques of measurement\, and changes in scie
 ntific understanding. It is argued that above all – then and now – think
 ing about sustainability helps define a field of political argument and 
 difference\, and that the history of environmental thought is more conte
 sted than is commonly presented.
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:A112\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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