Global Environmental History and Environmental Humanities
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What is Global Environmental History?
Global environmental history deals with the complex and changing network of relationships between humans and nature from a perspective that focuses primarily on cross-border phenomena and connections.
Global environmental history is equally concerned with the globe, i.e. the man-made construction of worldwide networks of ideas, people, institutions, goods and infrastructure, and with the planet Earth as an ecosystem in which plants, animals, humans and other organisms create and shape life together with weather and landscape formations.
Global environmental history is interdisciplinary. Like any form of environmental history, global environmental history is located both in the humanities and in the natural sciences. It works with the archives of nature, such as scientific data on toxicity and climate change, as well as with the archives of societies, including first-person documents, media products, court records or UN documents.
With its focus on planetary environmental issues, global environmental history is necessarily part of a lively conversation with the inter- and transdisciplinary environmental humanities (
here). These are a rapidly growing field of research that adds humanistic concepts and research questions such as values, norms, responsibility or historicity to contemporary discussions of the planetary environmental crisis.
Main research areas
- Verticality, infrastructures and the Anthropocene
- Wetlands in History [ Working Group at the IEK]
- Toxicity, waste and contaminated sites as environmental heritage
- Interdependence of eating habits, culture and environment [ ENB Junior Research Group Off the Menu]
- Theory and concepts of environmental history and interdisciplinarity
- Walking as a method: a Teaching-Learning Lab [ Walking]
News
Research from Augsburg in ?The Guardian”
The USA is increasingly shipping toxic waste to Mexico.
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The British newspaper The Guardian quoted Simone M. Müller in one of its most recent articles. It sums up the problem the USA causes by shipping off their toxic waste to Mexico – “out of sight, out of mind” like Simone M. Müller accurately describes it.
New book "Ecological Ambivalence, Complexity, and Change" has been published
Workshop Matter and Meaning: New Material Ecologies in Culture and History
The workshop “Matter and Meaning” investigates both material histories and the intricate relationships that exist between societies and their material and ecological environment. It is informed and yet seeks to move beyond the ‘constructivist- essentialist impasse’ that has long dominated environmental history, for instance.
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This is the second workshop in a series of three, in a collaborative sequence between the Universities of Augsburg, Konstanz, Tübingen, Basel and ETH Zürich, and takes place on September 30 and October 1, 2024 at the Environmental Science Centre (WZU), Room 101
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Contact
Contact Information:
Address:
Professorship for Global Environmental History
and Environmental Humanities
Universitaetsstrasse 10
86159 Augsburg
Germany
Phone: +49 821 598 - 2795 (Secretary)
E-Mail: sekretariat.umweltgeschichte@philhist.uni-augsburg.de
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Raum: Building D, Room 4505
Aktuelles
Research from Augsburg in ?The Guardian”
The USA is increasingly shipping toxic waste to Mexico.
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The British newspaper The Guardian quoted Simone M. Müller in one of its most recent articles. It sums up the problem the USA causes by shipping off their toxic waste to Mexico – “out of sight, out of mind” like Simone M. Müller accurately describes it.
New book "Ecological Ambivalence, Complexity, and Change" has been published
Workshop Matter and Meaning: New Material Ecologies in Culture and History
The workshop “Matter and Meaning” investigates both material histories and the intricate relationships that exist between societies and their material and ecological environment. It is informed and yet seeks to move beyond the ‘constructivist- essentialist impasse’ that has long dominated environmental history, for instance.
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This is the second workshop in a series of three, in a collaborative sequence between the Universities of Augsburg, Konstanz, Tübingen, Basel and ETH Zürich, and takes place on September 30 and October 1, 2024 at the Environmental Science Centre (WZU), Room 101
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Allgemeine Kontaktinformationen:
Anschrift:
Universit?t Augsburg
Professur für Globale Umweltgeschichte und Environmental Humanities
Universit?tsstra?e 10
86159 Augsburg
Telefon: +49 821 598 - 2795 (Sekretariat)
E-Mail: sekretariat.umweltgeschichte@philhist.uni-augsburg.de
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Sekretariat: Geb?ude D2, Raum 4500
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