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Urban Environments Initiative: Virtual Workshop Report: Spaces of Living in Transformation—In Times of Uncertainty
A residential view of Naples, Italy. Photo by Bertrand Gabioud via Unsplash
By Carolin Maertens and Daniel Dumas
The Urban Environments Initiative (UEI) is a collaborative venture between the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), the Technische Universität München (TUM), the University of Cambridge, and New York University, and includes members from a variety of other international…
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#architecture#Suburbia#Urban ecologies#Urban Environments Initiative#Urban infrastructure#Urban infrastructure projects#urban planning#urbanization
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Re:Thinking the Urban: UEI Workshop Report
The Isarauen (Courtesy of Jan Antonin Kolar via Unsplash)
By Daniel Dumas and Carolin Maertens
22 January 2021
The Urban Environments Initiative (UEI) held its third workshop entitled Re:Thinking the Urban on 22 January 2021. The online workshop brought UEI members from across the globe together for an in-depth analysis and discussion regarding two case studies of “spaces of living in…
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#interdisciplinarity#munich#renaturalization#schlachthof#the Isar#Urban Environments Initiative#urban planning#urban redevelopment
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Why Ecocriticism Needs the Social Sciences (and Vice Versa)
Tools Used in Connection with the Soil by May Rivers, from the Fruit Grower’s Guide (vintage illustration digitally enhanced by rawpixel, and modified here by the authors), CC BY-SA 4.0
By Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W.P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder:
Knowing that you need to tell a new story does not always mean that you know what to say, or how to say it. This is the…
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#academia#climate fiction#ecocriticism#environmental communication#interdisciplinarity#social influence of environmental stories#social sciences
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Studying Scientists in Their Natural Habitat
The author interviewing Monika Schillat (Photograph courtesy of Fern Hames)
By Melissa Haeffner
Growing up in a small suburb in the United States, my dream was to move to the big city, to agilely navigate through shoulder-to-shoulder masses of humanity and revel in the clashes between cultures. I didn’t pay attention to the “environment” or “nature,” and it was not a central part of my…
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#Antarctica#autoethnography#conservation#Homeward Bound#science#Scientific methodology#women and science
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Tracing Landscape Change through Dung Beetles
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The Fire Knows No Boundaries
This picture is not from the fires, but of a sacred place, Mt Yengo. It’s where Biame [a creation ancestor] stepped back into the sky. That’s why the mountain is flat. It was part of the bushfire story and is part of our Story that will outlast these times. (Source: Rob Waters)
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By Rob Waters
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The Anglophone Dilemma in the Environmental Humanities
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By Dan Finch-Race and Katie Ritson
Transnational discussions of the climate crisis generally use English as a primary language so as to facilitate direct communication among a high number of stakeholders. The primacy of English is clear for the likes of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“version complète disponible en anglais seulement,” the French list…
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#academia#anglophone dilemma#environmental humanities#lingua franca#multilingualism#roundtable discussion
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Masking Our Uncertainties: “The Way of the Masks”
Masking Our Uncertainties: “The Way of the Masks”
Reproduced with permission © Ranjan Kaul
By Rita Brara
A mask does not exist in isolation; it presupposes other real or potential masks by its side, masks that might have been chosen in its stead and substituted for it.-Claude Levi-Strauss, The Way of the Masks
An overwhelming sense of uncertainty fogs the Covid-19 pandemic and cityscapes in India as elsewhere in a planetary reminder of our…
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Why Ecocriticism Needs the Social Sciences (and Vice Versa)
Why Ecocriticism Needs the Social Sciences (and Vice Versa)
Tools Used in Connection with the Soil by May Rivers, from the Fruit Grower’s Guide (vintage illustration digitally enhanced by rawpixel, and modified here by the authors), CC BY-SA 4.0
By Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W.P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder
Knowing that you need to tell a new story does not always mean that you know what to say, or how to say it. This is the…
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#academia#climate fiction#ecocriticism#environmental communication#interdisciplinarity#social influence of environmental stories#social sciences
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The Great Blasket Island, Storytelling, and the Environment
By Matthias Egeler and Anna Pilz
We are standing on the headland of Dunmore Head on the western edge of Dingle Peninsula, on the western edge of Ireland, on the western edge of Europe.
Mount Eagle seen from Dunmore Head. © Matthias Egeler
By Matthias Egeler and Anna Pilz
We are standing on the headland of Dunmore Head on the western edge of Dingle Peninsula, on the western edge of Ireland, on the western edge of Europe. One moment, the slope is speckled with light, the next it is in the shadow of a heavy rain cloud. Then the winds push away the rain leaving behind a sparkling…
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#ecocriticism#extinction#Gaelic storytelling#Ireland#Irish literature#literary criticism#Peig Sayers#The Great Blasket Island
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Reclaiming Oktoberfest: Celebrating Sustainability Instead of Consumerism
Reclaiming Oktoberfest: Celebrating Sustainability Instead of Consumerism
On a sunny day, tens of thousands of people flock to the ‘Theresienwiese’ festival grounds. Source: Pixabay
By Elmar Ujszaszi-Müller (Guest edited by Anna Antonova)
Every year in late September, the atmosphere in Munich becomes thicker when Oktoberfest takes place. The intense odors of roasted almonds and grilled chicken mingle with those of specially brewed lager and the sweat of thousands of…
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Re:Thinking the Urban: UEI Workshop Report
Re:Thinking the Urban: UEI Workshop Report
The Isarauen (Courtesy of Jan Antonin Kolar via Unsplash)
By Daniel Dumas and Carolin Maertens
22 January 2021
The Urban Environments Initiative (UEI) held its third workshop entitled Re:Thinking the Urban on 22 January 2021. The online workshop brought UEI members from across the globe together for an in-depth analysis and discussion regarding two case studies of “spaces of living in…
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#interdisciplinarity#munich#renaturalization#schlachthof#the Isar#Urban Environments Initiative#urban planning#urban redevelopment
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A Sketch for Teaching the Anthropocene in the Alps)
A Sketch for Teaching the Anthropocene in the Alps)
The author and Suzie in the Austrian Alps overlooking the Steinernes Meer where she grew up. (Photo: Heidi Danzl)
By Heidi E. Danzl (trans. Kristy Henderson)
The Alps can be considered a hot spot for climate change due to changing growing seasons and tree lines, species migration, more intense weather events, increased glacial melt, droughts, mudslides, avalanches, flooding, and the…
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Dazzling and Dangerous: Epidemics, Space Physics, and Settler Understandings of the Aurora Borealis
Dazzling and Dangerous: Epidemics, Space Physics, and Settler Understandings of the Aurora Borealis
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By Jennifer Fraser and Noah Stemeroff
Earlier this year, Explore, a multimedia company that operates the largest live nature camera network on the planet, noticed that one of its livestreams was going viral. The feed in question broadcasts from Churchill, Manitoba. Positioned directly beneath the auroral oval, this camera offers…
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Resisting Climate Change Apocalypticism: Environmental Justice Activism from the South Pacific
Resisting Climate Change Apocalypticism: Environmental Justice Activism from the South Pacific
Jaluit Atoll Lagoon, Marshall Islands (Source: Keith Polya, CC BY 2.0, via flickr)
By Hanna Straß-Senol
In late 2013, an Australian newspaper reported that a man from Kiribati “stood to make history as the world’s first climate refugee.” The New Zealand High Court, before which the man appeared, rejected the claim because the category of climate refugee was not included under the United…
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#Apocalypticism#climate activism#climate change#climate refugees#environmental humanities#Marshall Islands#Pacific Islands#poetry
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Book Review: Elizabeth Hennessy, On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galápagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden
By Rodrigo Salido Moulinié
The reports said they wanted to kill the turtle. They surrounded the research station and refused to let supplies go through to the 33 people—and the colony of reptiles—inside the building.
Lonesome George, Arturo de Frias Marques, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Rodrigo Salido Moulinié
The reports said they wanted to kill the turtle. They surrounded the research station and refused to let supplies go through to the 33 people—and the colony of reptiles—inside the building. [1] Yet the fishermen went on strike and took the building not because they hated that turtle (they…
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Starhawk, Henry Vaughan, and the Environmental Imagination
Starhawk, Henry Vaughan, and the Environmental Imagination
Camille Flammarion, L’Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire. Paris: Hachette, 1888. Recoloured by Hugo Heikenwaelder, 1998, CC BY-SA 2.5.
By Zane Johnson
Times of widespread crisis often challenge conventional ways of being in and seeing the world. Sometimes these challenges take on a millenarian character, heralding the end of an epoch or the dawning of a new age. A case in point is the…
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#Crisis Occultism#early modern literature#Environmental imagination#Henry Vaughan#literature#Metaphysical poets#poetry#Starhawk
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