Political Ecology: Workshop on Environmental Humanities
The aim of this workshop on environmental history and cultural ecology is to connect regional universities in Southern Germany and Switzerland to stimulate and build a sustainable scientific network. This first meeting is initiated with the intention of organizing further meetings in Konstanz or at our partner universities.
The workshop aims at “political ecology” as a common field of interest. Political ecology is a field that critically interrogates the nature–society relations, particularly looking at the power relations that intersect and affect the access to natural resources, in order to reveal disparities and injustices in the distribution of costs and benefits.
Against this background, the workshop explores the mutual relationships among political, economic and social acting; discourses and imaginaries of the natural environment; and environmental transformations in the 19th and 20th century. By addressing diverse relations that shaped the biophysical environment and ecosystems on a global scale, we intend to connect research projects that address environmental knowledge as a politically contested field in global, imperial and (post) colonial studies.
The aim of our workshop on environmental history and cultural ecology is to connect regional universities in Southern Germany and Switzerland to stimulate and build a sustainable scientific network. This first meeting is initiated with the intention of organizing further meetings in Konstanz or at our partner universities.The workshop aims at “political ecology” as a common field of interest.
September 14-15, 2023, Konstanz, Bischofsvilla
This workshop is organized by.
Irmtraud Huber, Sebastian Koos, Timo Müller, Marie Muschalek and Sven Reichardt