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    ROUNDTABLE STUDYING THE ANTHROPOCENE IN CENTRAL ASIA: THE CHALLENGE OF SOURCES AND SCALES IN HUMAN–ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS
    (CENTRAL ASIAN SURVEY, 2021) Féaux de la Croix, Jeanne; Arzhantseva, Irina; Dağyelihttps, Jeanine; Dubuisson, Eva-Marie; Härke, Heinrich; Penati, Beatrice; Ueda, Akira; Wooden, Amanda
    received considerable attention in Central Asia. In light of the Anthropocene crises, there is a real urgency for maturing this field and investigating the methodological and epistemological challenges that environmental topics demand, often working across disciplinary habits and time scales. This roundtable brings together Central Asianists from a range of backgrounds to discuss the sources and scales of their investigation, their challenges and potential. The contributors discuss how particular kinds of sources such as climate models, archival manuscripts, ethnographic fieldwork and media analyses have been used to understand environmental changes in the region. In what ways do the traditions of scholars’ disciplinary training guide the scale of analysis? Looking toward the future of environmental humanities in Central Asia, this roundtable suggests paths for developing this vital field of enquiry